A REMEMBRANCE FOR DYEING a.d. 



1582. 



^humaniter tractarentur. Quemadmodum nos vicissim 

 omnes magni Cassaris subditos omni humanitatis genere 

 tractabimus, si in Oceani maria, aliave loca venerint, quae 

 nostro parent imperio. Postremo excellentiam vestram 

 pro eo quern in nostros extendet favore iis omnibus 

 officiis prosequemur, quae a gratissima principe in optime 

 <ie se merentes debent proficisci. Bene & foeliciter valeas. 

 X)atum e castro nostro Windesorii die vicessimo mensis 

 Novembris, Anno Jesu Christi salvatoris nostri 1582. 

 Regni vero nostri vicessimo quarto. 



A briefe Remembrance of things to be indevoured 

 at Constantinople, and in other places in 

 Turkic, touching our Clothing and our Dying, 

 and things that bee incident to the same, and 

 touching ample vent of our naturall commodi- 

 ties, & of the labour of our poore people 

 withall, and of the generall enriching of this 

 Realme : drav^en by M. Richard Hakluyt of 

 the middle Temple, and given to a friend that 

 was sent into Turkic 1582. 



Nile wherewith we colour Blew to be 

 brought into this realme by seed or 

 roote. 



2 And the Arte of compounding of 

 the same. 



3 And also all other herbes used in 

 dying in like maner to bee brought in. 



4 And all Trees, whose Leaves, Seedes, or Barkes, or 

 "Wood doe serve to that use, to be brought into this 

 realme by Seed or Roote. 



5 All little Plants and Buskes serving to that use to 

 ibe brought in. 



6 To learne to know all earths and minerals forren 

 used in dying, and their naturall places, for possible the 

 like may here be found upon sight. 



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