REMEMBRANCES FOR A FACTOR a.d. 



1582. 



Remembrances for master S. to give him the better [ll. i. 161.] 

 occasion to informe himselfe of some things in 

 England, and after of some other things in 

 Turkic, to the great profite of the Common 

 weale of this Countrey. Written by the fore- 

 sayd master Richard Hakluyt, for a principall 

 English Factor at Constantinople 1582. 



Ince all men confesse (that be not bar- 

 barously bred) that men are borne as 

 well to seeke the common commoditie 

 of their Countrey, as their owne private 

 benefite, it may seeme follie to perswade 

 that point, for each man meaneth so to 

 doe. But wherein men should seeke the 



common commoditie, and what way, and by what meane 

 that is to bee brought about, is the point or summe of 

 the matter, since every good man is ready to imploy 

 his labour. This is to bee done by an infinite sort of 

 meanes, as the number of things bee infinite that may 

 bee done for common benefite of the Realme. And 

 as the chiefe things so to bee done be divers, so are 

 they to bee done by divers men, as they bee by wit 

 and maner of education more fit, or lesse fit, for this 

 and for that. And for that of many things that tend 

 to the common benefite of the State, some tend more, 

 and some lesse, I finde that no one thing, after one 

 other, is greater then Clothing, and the things incident 

 to the same. And understanding that you are of right 

 good capacitie, and become a Factor at Constantinople, 

 and in other partes in Turkie, I finde no man fitter of all 

 the English Factors there, then you. And therefore I 

 am so bold to put you in minde, and to tell you wherein 

 with some indevour you may chaunce to doe your Coun- 

 trey much good, and give an infinite sorte of the poore 

 people occasion to pray for you here throughout the 

 Realme : this that I meane is in matter of Cloth, &c. 



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