a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1555- 



17 Item, it is decreed, that when the ships shal arrive 

 at this going foorth at the Wardhouse, that their Agents, 

 with master Chancelor grand pilot, John Brooke merchant, 

 deputed for the Wardhouse, with John Bucldand master 

 of the Edward, John Howlet master, and John Robins 



The Philip pilot of the Philip and Marie, shall conferre and consult 

 and Mary, together, what is most profitable to be done therfore for 

 the benefit of the company, & to consider whether they 

 may bargaine with the captaine of the castle, and the 

 inhabitants in that place, or alongst the coast for a large 

 quantity of fish, drie or wet, killed by the naturals, or to 

 be taken by our men at a price reasonable for trucke of 

 cloth, meale, salt, or beere, and what traine oyle, or other 

 commodity is to be had there at this time, or any other 

 season of the yeere, and whether there will be had or 

 found sufficient lading for both the sayd shippes, to be 

 bought there, and how they may conferre with the 

 naturals for a continuance in hanting the place, if profit 

 wil so arise to the company, and to consider whether the 

 Edward in her returne may receive at the Wardhouse 

 any kind of lading homeward, and what it may amount 

 unto, and whether it shall be expedient for the Philip to 

 abide at the Wardhouse the returne of the Edward out 

 of Russia, or getting that she may returne with the first 

 good wind to England, without abiding for the Edward, 

 and so to conclude & accord certainely among themselves 

 upon their arrivall, that the certaintie may (upon good 

 deliberation) be so ordered and determined betweene both 

 ships, that the one may be assured of the other, and their 

 determinations to be put in writing duplicate to remaine 

 with ech ship, according to such order as shall be taken 

 betweene them. 



18 Item, that John Brooke our marchant for the 

 Wardhouse take good advise of the rest of our Agents, 

 how to use himselfe in al affaires, whiles the ship shalbe 



Note. at the Wardhouse, he to see good order to be kept, make 



bargains advisedly, not crediting the people untill their 

 natures, dispositions & fidelities shal be well tried, make 



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