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for 4 pound 10 shillings and 5 pound the hundred. In 

 like maner chamlets, whereas we had three pieces, and 

 of the best sort two and a halfe for a carsie, and could 

 not sell them above 20 shillings and 22 shillings the piece, 

 they sell them for 30 and 35 shillings the piece. Also 

 grogerams, where we had of the best, two pieces and a 

 halfe for a carsie, they sell them for foure shillings and 

 foure shillings and sixe pence the yard. Carpets the 

 smaller sort which serve for cupboords, we had three 

 for a carsie : whereas we at the most could not sell them 

 but for 20 shillings the piece, they sell them for 25 

 shillings the piece. And so all other commodities that 

 the Venetians do bring, they sell them to us for the 

 third part more gaines then we our selves in those dayes 

 that we traded in those parts. Likewise the barrels of 

 oile that they bring from Candia, we never could sell 

 them above foure nobles the barrell, where they sell them 

 alwayes for 50 shillings & 3 pound the barrell. What 

 [II. i. 116.] great pity is this, that we should lose so good a trade, 

 and may have it in our owne hands, and be better 

 welcome to that countrey then the Venetians. More- 

 over, the Venetians come very little to Chio, for their 

 most trade is into Alexandria. And for to assure you 

 that we had these commodities in barter of our carsies, 

 looke into your fathers books, and the books of Sir John 

 Gresham, and his brethren, and you shall finde what I 

 have sayd to be true. 

 Divers places Also you know, that we are forced to seeke oiles out 

 ivhere zee may q£ Spaine, and that for these many yeeres they have bene 

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oiles for ou?- solde tor 25 pound and 30 pound the tunne : whereas, 



clothing farre if we can obtaine the foresayd safeconduct from the 

 cheaper then Turke, there are divers places in his dominions, where 

 out of Spatne. ^^ ^^^ j^j^ ^^^ tunnes, at 5 pound sterling the tunne. 

 The places are Modon, and Coron, which are but 

 twelve miles distant the one from the other, and do 

 stand in our way to Chio, as you may plainly see by 

 the Card. Also these are places where we may utter 

 our owne commodities, and not onely these two places, 



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