A.D. 



1584. 



Another ship 

 of Bristow 

 came to 

 Tripolis. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



they tooke of him certalne tunnes of oile : and after- 

 warde perceiving that they might have farre better cheape 

 notwithstanding the custome free, they desired the king 

 to hcence them to take the oiles at the pleasure of his 

 commons, for that his price did exceede theirs : where- 

 unto the king would not agree, but was rather contented 

 to abate his price, insomuch that the factors bought all 

 their oyles of the king custome free, and so laded the 

 same aboord. 



In the meane time there came to that place one Miles 

 Dickenson in a ship of Bristow, who together with our 

 said Factors tooke a house to themselves there. Our 

 French Factor Romane Sonnings desired to buy a com- 

 modity in the market, and wanting money, desired the 

 saide Miles Dickenson to lend him an hundred Chikinoes 

 untill he came to his lodging, which he did, and after- 

 ward the same Sonnings mette with Miles Dickenson in 

 the streete, and delivered him money bound up in a 

 napkin : saying, master Dickenson there is the money 

 that I borowed of you, and so thanked him for the 

 same : hee doubted nothing lesse then falshoode, which 

 is seldome knowne among marchants, and specially being 

 together in one house, and is the more detestable be- 

 tweene Christians, they being in Turkie among the 

 heathen. The said Dickenson did not tell the money 

 presently, untill he came to his lodging, and then finding 

 nine Chikinoes lacking of his hundred, which was about 

 three pounds, for that every Chikino is woorth seven 

 shillings of English money, he came to the sayde Romane 

 Sonnings and delivered him his handkerchiefe, and asked 

 him howe many Chikinoes hee had delivered him } 

 Sonnings answered, an hundred : Dickenson said no : 

 and so they protested and swore on both parts. But 

 in the end the sayd Romane Sonnings did sweare deepely 

 with detestable othes and curses, and prayed God that 

 hee might shewe his workes on him, that other might 

 take ensample thereby, and that he might be hanged like 

 a dogge, and never come into England againe, if he did 



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