A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1569. 



they were woont, I finde that the Venetians doe bring 

 those commodities hither, and doe sell them for double 

 the value that we our selves were accustomed to fetch 

 them. Wherefore, as I am informed by the above named 

 men, that there is none so fit to furnish this voyage as 

 your selfe : my request is that there may be a shippe 

 of convenient burthen prepared for this voyage, and 

 then I will satisfie you at large what is to be done 

 therein. And because the Turke, as I sayd before, is 

 waxen strong, and hath put out the Christian rulers, 

 and placed his owne subjects, we may doubt whether 

 we may so peaceably trade thither as we were woont : 

 therefore I dare undertake to obtaine a safeconduct, if 

 my charges may be borne to goe and come. Of the 

 way how this may be done, M. Locke can satisfie you 

 at large. Moreover, I can informe you more of the 

 trade of that countrey, then any other, for that I have 

 bene in those parts these thirty yeeres, and have bene 

 Caspar Cam- married in the very towne of Chio full foure and twenty 

 pion marned yeres. Furthermore, when one of our ships commeth 

 ^^eerel'^ ^ thither, they bring at the least sixe or eight thousand 

 carsies, so that the custome thereof is profitable for the 

 prince, and the returne of them is profitable to the 

 common people : for in barter of our wares, we tooke 

 the commodities which the poore of that towne made in 

 their houses : so that one of our shippes brought the 

 prince and countrey more gaines then sixe ships of other 

 nations. The want of this our trade thither was the 

 onely cause why the Christian rulers were displaced : for 

 when they payd not their yerely tribute, they were put 

 out by force. Touching the ship that must go, she 

 must observe this order, she must be a ship of counten- 

 ance, and she must not touch in any part of Spaine, 

 for the times are dangerous, nor take in any lading 

 there : but she must lade in England, either goods of 

 our owne, or els of strangers, and go to Genoa or 

 Legorno, where we may be wel intreated, and from 

 thence she must make her money to buy wines, by ex- 



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