LETTER TO THE AGENTS a.d. 



1557- 

 minde is 3 that you shall lade it all in such barrels of 



the bigger sort as you laded in the Edward, and no 



long barrels nor small. And that caske that wee have 



sent may serve for the Tallowe or anie other ware that 



is not leakage. Neverthelesse, this voyage you must 



take such as you can get. 



Also if the Emperour bee minded to deliver you any 

 summe of money, or good Waxe at as reasonable a 

 price as you may buye for readie money, wee will that 

 you shall take it and lade it for our accomptes, and 

 to come at our adventure, and hee to bee payed at 

 the returne of the shippes in Velvets, Sattens, or any 

 other kinde of silke, or cloth of golde, cloth of 

 tissue, or according as his Commission shall bee that 

 hee shall sende us in the shippes, and according to 

 such paternes as hee shall send. Wee doe not finde 

 the Ambassadour nowe at the last so conformable to 

 reason as wee had thought wee shoulde. Hee is very 

 mistrustfull, and thinketh everie man will beguile him. 

 Therefore you had neede to take heede howe you 

 have to doe with him or with any such, and to 

 make your bargaines plaine, and to set them downe 

 in writing. For they bee subtill people, and doe not 

 alwaies speake the trueth, and thinke other men to 

 bee like themselves. Therefore we would have none 

 of them to send any goods in our shippes at any 

 time, nor none to come for passengers, unlesse the 

 Emperour doe make a bargaine with you, as is afore- 

 said, for his owne person. 



Also we charge you not to suffer any of our nation 

 to send any wares to their wives or friends in any 

 of our ships ; but to take their money there to be 

 paied heere by the companie and not otherwise : and 

 to have consideration how you doe take the roble. 

 For although we doe rate it after sixteene shillings 

 eight pence of our money, yet it is not worth past 

 12. or 13. shillings sterling. Moreover, you had neede [I. 302.] 

 to sende newe accomptes, for them that came in the 



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