INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PURSERS a.d. 



1556. 



the governours and assistants, in such sorte as the trueth 



of their secret trades and occupyings may be revealed 



and knowen. You shal need alwayes to have Argos 



eyes, to spie their secret packing and conveyance, aswell 



on land as aboord the shippe, of and for such furres 



and other commodities, as yeerely they doe use to buy, 



packe and convey hither. If you will bee vigilant and 



secrete in this article, you cannot misse to spie their 



privie packing one with another, either on shore or 



aboord the shippe : worke herein wisely, and you shall 



deserve great thanks of the whole company. 



10 Also at the lading againe of the shippe, you 

 shall continue and abide abord, to the ende that you 

 may note and write in your booke all such goods and 

 marchandises as shall be brought and laden, which you 

 shall orderly note in all sortes as heretofore, as in the 

 second article partly it is touched : and in any wise 

 put the Master and the company in remembrance, to 

 looke and foresee substantially to the roomaging of the 

 shippe, by faire meanes or threats, as you shall see and 

 thinke will serve for the best. 



1 1 Thus when the shippe is full laden againe, and 

 all things aboord in good order, and that you doe 

 fortune to goe a shore to the Agent for your letters, 

 and dispatch away : you shall demand whether all the 

 goods be laden that were brought thither, and to know 

 the trueth therof, you shal repaire to the companies 

 storehouse there at S. Nicholas, to see if there be any 

 goods left in the sayd storehouse : if there be, you shal 

 demand why they be not laden, and note what kinde 

 of goods they be that be so left : and seeing any of 

 the shippes there not fully laden, you shall put the 

 Agent in remembrance to lade those goods so left, if 

 any such be to be laden, as is aforesayd. And thus 

 God sending you a faire wind, to make speede and 

 away. 



12 Finally, when God shall send you to arrive againe 

 upon this coast in safetie, either at Harewich, or else- 



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