LETTER TO THE AGENTS ad. 



1560. 

 oyles that you leave behinde : the price is not here so 

 good as it was : it is worth here 9 pound the tunne. 

 We thinke it good you should let the smaller ship 

 bring as much of the traine as she can cary: And that 

 the masters of the ships do looke wel to the romaging, 

 for they might bring away a great deale more then 

 they doe, if they would take paine in the romaging : 

 and bestowe the traine by it selfe, and the waxe and 

 tallowe by it selfe : for the leakage of the traine doth 

 fowle the other wares much. As for Allard the skinner, 

 if you thinke good, he may come home in these shippes. 

 We have no doubt but that you Henrie Lane, if you 

 minde to come home now in these ships as you requested, 

 will leave such good order there with our servants as 

 shall bee for our most proflte and their preferment, if 

 they doe their dueties diligently and truely. If our 

 friend Master Antonie Jenkinson bee returned, and 

 meane to come away in these ships to declare his mind 

 and opinion of his travaile, if need require and he be 

 so minded he may returne thither by land and be there 

 by the fine of Januarie or before. But as we be un- 

 certaine whether he be returned or not : so we know 

 not what he hath done, nor what benefite may rise 

 hereafter of his travaile. Therefore in this wee remit 

 it to his and your good discretions. Wee send you 

 Thomas Hawtrey which is our servant for yeeres : our 

 minde is he should be placed, where he may doe best 

 service. 



Also we send you Nicholas Chancelour to remaine Nicholas 

 there, who is our apprentice for yeeres : our minde is Chancelour. 

 hee should be set about such businesse as he is most 

 fit for : he hath been kept at writing schoole long : he 

 hath his Algorisme, and hath understanding of keeping 

 of bookes of reckonings. We send you now but 100 

 Kersies : but against the next yeere, if occasion serve, 

 wee will send you a greater quantitie, according as you [I. 309.] 

 shal advise us : One of the pipes of seckes that is in 

 the Swallow, which hath 2 round compasses upon the 



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