A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



which he had hired for me, where they remained foure 

 or five daies. But afterward when they should deliver 

 the money, it was concluded by the justice, that both 

 the money and goods should be delivered into the 

 positors hands, where they remained fourteene dayes 

 after my comming out of prison. At my being in 

 Aleppo, I bought a fountaine of silver and gilt, sixe 

 knives, sixe spoones, and one forke trimmed with corall 

 for five and twentie chekins, which the captaine of 

 Ormus did take, and payed for the same twentie par- 

 daos, which is one hundred larines, and was worth 

 there or here one hundred chekins. Also he had five 

 emrauds set in golde, which were woorth five hundred 

 or sixe hundred crownes, and payed for the same an 

 hundred pardaos. Also he had nineteene and a halfe 

 pikes of cloth, which cost in London twenty shillings 

 the pike, and was worth 9 or 10 crownes the pike, 

 and he payed for the same twelve larines a pike. Also 

 he had two pieces of greene Kersies, which were worth 

 foure and twentie pardaos the piece, and payd for them 

 sixteene pardaos a piece : besides divers other trifles, 

 that the officers and others had in the like order, and 

 some for nothing at all. But the cause of all this was 

 Michael Stropene, which came to Ormus not woorth a 

 penie, and now hath thirtie or fortie thousand crownes, 

 and he grieveth that any other stranger should trade 

 thither but himselfe. But that shall not skill, for I 

 trust in God to goe both thither and hither, and to 

 buy and sell as freely as he or any other. Here is 

 very great good to be done in divers of our commodi- 

 ties, and in like manner there is great profite to be 

 made with commodities of this countrey, to be carried 

 to Aleppo. 



It were long for me to write, and tedious for you to 

 read of all things that have passed since my parting from 

 you. But of all the troubles that have chanced since 

 mine arrivall in Ormus, this bringer is able to certifie 

 you. I mind to stay here : wherefore if you will write 



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