A.D. 

 1583. 



The Isle o/S. 

 Sebastian. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



9 Item, that no head or chiefe officer being set downe 

 for such an officer under the hand of the owner, at the 

 going to sea of the said shippe, shall or may be displaced 

 from his said place or office, without great cause, and his 

 misdemeanor to be adjudged by the Captaine, and his 

 Lieutenant, the Master, the Pilot, and the marchant, or 

 by the consent of three of them at the least. 



10 Item, that upon the returne of the shippe to the 

 coast of England, the Maister and Pilot put not into 

 any port or harbour, to the Westward of Southhampton, 

 but forced by weather, or such like urgent cause. 



William Huddie. John Foster. 



John Hooper. William Cheesman. 



Hugh Smith. 



A direction as well for the Captaine, and other my 

 friends of the ship, as especially for William 

 Cheesman Marchant, for the voyage to the 

 river of Plate. 



T your comming to the Isle of Saint 

 Sebastian, upon the coast of Brasill, you 

 shall according to your discretions, make 

 sale of such commodities, as you may 

 thinke will be thereabout well vented, 

 and likewise to buy commodities without 

 making longer stay there then your 

 victuals be providing, but rather to bespeake commodities 

 against your returne from the river of Plate, especially of 

 Amber, Sugar, Greene ginger, Cotton wooll, and some 

 quantitie of the peppers of the countrey there. Also for 

 Parats and Munkies, and the beast called Serrabosa. Also 

 you shall barrell up of the beefe called Petune, two or 

 three barrels, and to lose no good oportunitie, to gather 

 of the Indian figges, and the graines of them to preserve 

 drie, in such quantitie as conveniently may be done : and 

 touching the making of the traine, and preserving of the 

 hides, I leave it wholly to the order and the discretion of 



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