REMEMBRANCES FOR A FACTOR a.d. 



1582. 



acquaintance, and otherwise to leave no meane unsought 



that tendeth to this end, wherein you are to doe as 



circumstances may permit. 



3 Then to learne to know all the materials and sub- 

 stances that the Turkes use in dying, be they of Herbes, 

 simple or compound, be they Plants, Barkes, Wood, 

 Berries, Seedes, Graines, or Minerall matter, or what els 

 soever. But before all other, such things as yeeld those 

 famous colours that carrie such speciall report of excel- 

 lencie, that our Merchaunts may bring them to this 

 realme by ordinarie trade, as a right meane for the better 

 vent of our clothes. 



4 To know the use of those, and where the naturall 

 place of them and of ech of them is, I meane the place 

 where ech of them groweth or is bred. 



5 And in any wise, if Anile that coloureth blew be a 

 naturall commodity of those parts, and if it be com- 

 pounded of an herbe, to send the same into this realme 

 by seed or by root in barrell of earth, with all the whole 

 order of sowing, setting, planting, replanting, and with 

 the compounding of the same, that it may become a 

 naturall commodity in this realme as Woad is, to this end 

 that the high price of forreine Woad (which devoureth 



yeerely great treasure) may be brought downe. So shall [II. I. 163.] 

 the marchant buy his cloth lesse deare, and so he shalbe 

 able to occupy with lesse stocke, be able to afoord cloth 

 cheaper, make more ample vent, and also become a 

 greater gainer himselfe, and all this to the benefit of 

 this realme. 



6 To do the like with herbe & plant, or tree that in 

 dying is of any excellent use, as to send the same by seed, 

 berry, root, &c : for by such meanes Saffron was brought 

 first into this realme, which hath set many poore on 

 worke, and brought great wealth into this realme. Thus 

 may Sumack, the plant wherewith the most excellent 

 blacks be died in Spaine, be brought out of Spaine, and 

 out of the Hands of the same, if it will grow in this more 

 colde climat. For thus was Woad brought into this 



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