of November 



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LETTERS FROM JOHN NEWBERY ad. 



1584. 

 also we lay a long time at sea comming hither, and 

 forthwith at our arrivall here were caried to prison, 

 and the next day after were sent for before the Aveador, 

 who is the chiefest justice, to be examined : and when 

 we were examined, he presently sent us backe againe 

 to prison. 



And after our being here in prison 13 daies, James James Storie 

 Storie went into the monastery of S. Paul, where he ^^^^'T*^^'^^^'- 

 remaineth, and is made one of the company, which life 

 he liketh very well. 



And upon S. Thomas day (which was 22 dayes ^^^y arrived 

 after our arrivall here) I came out of prison, and the "^f-^-^f ^^^ ^° 

 next day after came out Ralph Fitch, and William Bets, /-g ' 



If these troubles had not chanced, I had beene in 

 possibility to have made as good a voyage as ever any 

 man made with so much money. Many of our things 

 I have solde very well, both here and at Ormus in 

 prison, notwithstanding the captaine willed me (if I 

 would) to sell what I could before we imbarked : & 

 so with officers I went divers times out of the castle 

 in the morning, and solde things, and at night returned 

 againe to the prison, and all things that I solde they 

 did write, and at our imbarking from thence, the cap- 

 tain gave order that I should deliver all my mony with 

 the goods into the hands of the scrivano, or purser of 

 the ship, which I did, and the scrivano made a remem- 

 brance, which he left there with the captaine, that my 

 selfe and the rest with money & goods he should deliver 

 into the hands of the Aveador generall of India : but 

 at our arrivall here, the Aveador would neither meddle 

 with goods nor money, for that he could not prove 

 any thing against us : wherefore the goods remained in 

 the ship 9 or 10 daies after our arrivall, and then, for 

 that the ship was to saile from thence, the scrivano 

 sent the goods on shore, and here they remained a day 

 and a night, and no body to receive them. In the end 

 they suffered this bringer to receive them, who came 

 with me from Ormus, and put them into an house 



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