JASPER CAMPION a.d. 



1569. 

 change to Candia, for there both custome & exchange 

 are reasonable : and not do as the Math. Gonson & 

 other ships did in time past, who made sale of their [II. i. 117.] 

 wares at Messina for the lading of their wines, and payed 

 for turning their white money into golde after foure 

 and five in the hundreth, and also did hazzard the losse 

 of shippe and goods by carying away their money. 

 Thus by the aforesayd course we shall trade quietly, 

 and not be subject to these dangers. Also from Legorno ^^^^'^ °f ^°^P^ 

 to Castilla de la mar, which is but 16 miles from Naples, ^^f «/^/^^^- 

 and the ready way to Landia, you may lade hoopes, mare for 

 which will cost carolins of Naples 27 and a halfe the Candia, 

 thousand, which is ducats two and a halfe of Spaine. 

 And in Candia for every thousand of hoops you shall 

 have a but of Malmesey cleare of all charges. Inso- 

 much that a ship of the burden of the Mathew Gonson 

 will cary foure hundreth thousand hoops, so that one 

 thousand ducats will lade her, and this is an usual trade 

 to Candia, as M. Michael Locke can testifie. Further- 

 more, it is not unknowen to you, that the oiles which 

 we do spend in England for our cloth, are brought out 

 of Spaine, and that very deare, and in England we can- 

 not sell them under 28 pound and 30 pound the tunne : 

 I say we may have good oile, and better cheape in 

 divers places within the streights. Wherefore if you 

 thinke good to take this voyage in hand, I will informe 

 you more particularly when you please. In the meane 

 time I rest your worships to command. 



Yours at your pleasure Jasper Campion, 



[The true 

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