JASPER CAMPION a.d. 



1569. 

 all nations in the world we do him least hurt, and that 

 we may do his countrey great good in consuming those 

 commodities which his countrey people make. Further- 

 more, it were farre more requisite that we should cary 

 our owne commodities, then to suffer a stranger to cary 

 them thither, for that we can affoord them better cheape 

 then a stranger can. 1 write not this by hearesay of 

 other men, but of mine own experience, for I have traded 

 in the countrey above this 30 yeres, and have bene 

 maried in the towne of Chio full 24 yeres, so that you 

 may assure yourselfe that I will write nothing but truth. 

 Now I will declare unto you the wares and commodities 

 that are in the countreyes neere about Chio. There are Great store of 



very 2:ood galles, the best sort whereof are sold in ^^^^p/^^^- 

 T7 1 J z' 1 • 1 1 • 1 1 ^1 ^ modities to be 



-England nve shiUmgs deerer then any other countrey ^^^ ^-^ ^^^-^ 



galles. There is also cotten wooll, tanned hides, hides 



in the haire, waxe, chamlets, mocayares, grogerams, silke 



of divers countreyes, cordovan skinnes tanned white, to 



be made blacke, of them great quantity, and also course 



wooll to make beds. The naturall commodities growing 



in the Hand it selfe are silke rawe, and masticke. Of 



these commodities there are laden yeerely ten or twelve 



great ships of Genoa, besides five or sixe that do belong 



to the towne of Chio, which ships are fraughted for 



Genoa, Messina, and Ancona. And now that the 



Mauneses and the chiefe merchants of Genoa are 



banished, the trade is cleane lost, by reason whereof 



merchandise must now of necessity be better cheape then 



they have bene in times past. But yet when all those 



ships did trade to the countrey, & also our ships, we 



never had lesse then three kintals of galles for a carsie, 



and in England we sold them for 35 and '}^^ shillings 



the hundred. And whereas now they are brought by 



the Venetians, they sell them unto us for three pound 



tenne shillings, and foure pound the hundred. Also we 



had three kintals of cotten wooll for a carsie, and solde 



the wooll in England for 50 shillings or 3 pound at 



the most, whereas now the Italians sell the same to us 



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