JASPER CAMPION 



but many others, where we may have oiles, and be better 

 used then we are in Spaine, where we pay very deare, 

 and also are very evill in treated many wayes, as to you 

 is not unknowen. So that by these meanes (if the 

 marchants will) we may be eased, and have such a trade 

 as the like is not in Christendome. Now, as for getting 

 the safeconduct, if I were but able to spend one hundred 

 pounds by the yeere, I would be bound to lose it, if 

 that I did not obtaine the foresayd safeconduct. For 

 I know that if the inhabitants of Chio did but thinke 

 that wee would trade thither againe, they at their owne 

 cost would procure to us a safeconduct, without any 

 peny of charges to the marchants. So that if the mar- 

 chants will but beare my charges to solicit the cause, 

 I will undertake it my selfe. Wherefore I pray you 

 speake to M. Winter and the other marchants, that this 

 matter may take effect. And let me have your answere 

 herein assoone as conveniently you may, for that the 

 time of the yeere draweth nigh that this businesse must 

 be done. Thus I commit you to God, and rest alwayes 

 yours to command. 



Yours as your servant Caspar Campion. 



To the worshipful! M. William Winter. 



T may please your worship to understand, 

 that as concerning the voyage to Chio, 

 what great profit would be gotten, both 

 for marchants, and also for owners of 

 shippes (as it was well knowen in those 

 dayes when the Matthew Gonson, the 

 Trinitie Fitzwilliams, and the Saviour of 

 Bristow, with divers other ships which traded thither 

 yerely, and made their voyage in ten or twelve moneths, 

 and the longest in a yeere) M. Francis Lambert, M. 

 John Brooke, and M. Drauer can truely informe you 

 heereof at large. And by reason that wee have not 

 traded into those parts these many yeeres, and the Turke 

 is growen mighty, whereby our ships doe not trade as 



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A.D. 

 1569. 



