ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1560. 



otherwise dispatched out of the way. The fifteenth 

 day of December wee received a letter from Christopher 

 Hodson, dated in the Mosco the 29 of July, by the 

 way of Danske : which is in effect a copie of such 

 another received from him in our shippes. You shal 

 understand that we have laden in three good shippes of 

 ours these kind of wares following : to wit, in the 



The Swallow. Swallowe of London, Master under God Steven Burrow, 

 34 fardels N° 136 broad short clothes, and foure fardels 

 N° 58 Hampshire Kersies : and 23 pipes of bastards 

 and seckes, and 263 pieces of raisins and 4 hogsheds 

 N° 154 pieces of round pewter, and ten hogsheds and 

 poncheons of prunes, and one dryfatte with Almonds. 



The Philip And in the Philip and Marie, Master under God Thomas 



and Marie. Wade, 25 fardels N° 100 broad clothes, and three 

 fardels N° 42 Hampshire Kersies, and thirtie pipes of 

 seckes and bastards, and 100 pieces of raisins. And in 



The Jesus. the Jesus of London, Master under God Arthur Pette, 

 10 fardels N° 40 broade shorte clothes, and twenty seven 

 pipes of bastards and seckes, as by the Invoices herewith 

 inclosed may appeare : Also you shall receive such 

 necessaries as you did write to bee sent for the rope 

 makers : trusting that you shall have better successe 

 with them which you shall send us in these ships, then 

 with the rest which you have sent us yet : for we as 

 yet have sold none of them. And whereas we wrote 

 unto you in our former letter, that we would send you 

 a hundred tunnes of sake, by reason it is so deare here 

 we doe send you but nine tunnes and a halfe, for it 

 cost here ten pence the bushell the first penie : namely 

 in the Swallow 6 tunnes and a halfe, in the Philip 

 and Marie one tunne and a halfe, and in the Jesus one 

 tunne and a halfe. The 4 hogsheds of round pewter 

 goe in the Swallow and in the Philip and Marie N° 154 

 pieces, as is aforesaid. We send you three ships, trust- 

 ing that you have provided according to our former 

 writing good store of lading for them. If yee have 

 more wares then will lade the ships, -let it be Traine 



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