A LETTER FROM ALGIERS a.d. 



1583. 

 otherwise then in secret and counsell. You are carefully 

 to foresee the charge of the house, that the same may be 

 in all honest measure to the companies profit and your 

 owne health through moderation in diet, and at the best 

 hand, and in due time to provide things needfull, to save 

 what may be : for he that buyeth every thing when he 

 needeth it, harmeth his owne house, and helpeth the 

 retailer. So as it is, in mine opinion, wisdome to foresee 

 the buying of all things in their native soile, in due time, 

 and at the first hand every yeere, as you are to send the 

 company the particular accounts of the same expenses. 

 Touching your selfe, you are to cause to be employed 

 fifty or threescore ducats, videlicet, twenty in Sope, and 

 the rest in Spices, whereof the most part to be Pepper, 

 whereof we spend very much. The Spices are to be 

 provided by our friend William Barrat, and the Sope buy 

 you at your first arrivall, for that this shippe lading the 

 same commodity will cause it to amount in price. From 

 our mansion Rapamat, the fift of September 1583. 



A letter to the right honourable William Hare- 

 borne her Majesties Ambassadour v^ith the 

 Grand Signior from Alger. 



Ight honorable, we have received your 

 honors letters dated in Constantinople 

 the 5 of November, and accordingly 

 delivered that inclosed to the king of 

 this place, requiring of him, according as 

 you did command us in her Majesties 

 name, that he would vouchsafe to give 

 order to all his Captaines & Rajes that none of them 

 should meddle with our English shippes comming or 

 going to or from these parts, for that they have order 

 not to passe by the Christian coast, but upon the coast of 

 Barbary, and shewing him of the charter given by the 

 Grand Signior, requiring him in like case that for the 

 better fulfilling of the amity, friendship and holy league 



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