LETTER FROM THOMAS HAWTREY ad. 



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 that I have bought tried and untried for 77. robles 



foure hundred podes of tried tallowe, besides foure 



hundred podes that I have given out money for, 



whereof God graunt good receipt when the time 



commeth, which is in Lent. And in browne flaxe 



and hempe I have bought seventeene bercovites, sixe 



podes and sixteene pound, which cost 28. robles, 



eleven altines two pence. And as for other kindes 



of wares I have bought none as yet. And for mastes Masts of 30. 



to bee provided, you shall understand that I wrote a y° rds - 



letter to Totma the 28. of this present for fiftie mastes, 



to wit, for 25. of fifteene fathoms, and 25. of foure- 



teene fathoms, to be an arshine and a halfe at the 



small ende. And more, 1 have written for 30. great 



trees to be two arshines and a halfe at the small end, An Arshine is 



and for the other that were provided the last yeere, 3- quarters of 



I trust they shall be sent downe in the spring: of the a y a7dor 



. ro more. 



yeere. And as concerning the Ropemakers, you shall 



understand that their abiding place shall bee with you at a rope house 

 Colmogro, as I doe thinke Master Gray hath advertised erected at 

 you. For, as Roger Bontinge Master of the woorkes Co ^ mo S ro - 

 doeth say, there is no place more meete for their pur- 

 pose then with you : and there it will be made with 

 lesser cost, considering that the pale is the one halfe 

 of it : which is to set one pale more to that, and so 

 for to cover it over, which as they say, will be but 

 little cost. They doe pray that it may bee made sixe- 

 teene foote broade, and one hundred and eightie 

 fathoms long : and that in the midde way twentie 

 foote from the pale towarde the water side there may 

 be a house made to tarre in, standing alone by it selfe Atarrehouse. 

 for danger of fire. The Tarre house that they woulde 

 have made, is to bee fifteene fathoms long, and ten 

 fathoms broade, and they would that house should be 

 made first : for I thinke they will not tarre before they 

 come there. And farther they desire that you will 

 provide for as much tarre as you may, for heere wee 

 have small store, but when the time commeth that it 



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