AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1563-81. 



goeth a Captaine to administer Justice to all Christians 

 of the Portugales. Also this captaine hath authoritie to 

 recover the goods of those Marchants that by chance 

 die in those voyages, and they that have not made their 

 Wills and registred them in the aforesaide schooles, the 

 Captaines wil consume their goods in such wise, that 

 litle or nothing will be left for their heires and friends. 

 Also there goeth in these same voyages some marchants 

 that are commissaries of the schoole of Sancta miseri- 

 cordia, that if any Marchant die and have his Will made, 

 and hath given order that the schoole of Misericordia 

 shall have his goods and sell them, then they sende the 

 money by exchange to the schoole of Misericordia in 

 Lisbone, with that copie of his Testament, then from 

 Lisbon they give intelligence thereof, into what part 

 of Christendome soever it be, and the heires of such 

 a one comming thither, with testimoniall that they be 

 heires, they shall receive there the value of his goods : 

 in such wise that they shall not loose any thing. But 

 they that die in the kingdome of Pegu loose the thirde 

 part of their goods by ancient custome of the Countrey, 

 that if any Christian dieth in the kingdome of Pegu, 

 the king and his officers rest heires of a thirde of his 

 goods, and there hath never bene any deceit or fraude 

 used in this matter. I have knowen many rich men 

 that have dwelled in Pegu, and in their age they have 

 desired to go into their owne Countrey to die there, 

 and have departed with al their goods and substance 

 without let or trouble. 

 Order of ij^ Pegu the fashion of their apparel is all one, as 

 apparel in ^^jj ^^^ Noble man, as the simple: the onely differ- 

 ence is in the finenes of the cloth, which is cloth of 

 Bombast one finer then another, and they weare their 

 apparell in this wise : First, a white Bombast cloth which 

 serveth for a shirt, then they gird another painted bom- 

 bast cloth of foureteene brases, which they binde up 

 betwixt their legges, and on their heads they weare a 

 small tock of three braces, made in guize of a myter, 



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