AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1580. 



there to be bound, as they use in Gallcia, that we 

 may be preserved and defended from all reprisals and 

 imbargments of princes or subjects for any causes or 

 matters whatsoever, whereby wee may bee incouraged 

 by them, giving us this securitie of good intertain- 

 ment, to continue the trade yeerely henceforth : and 

 for our parts we promise upon our credits and 

 fidelities, to commit no outrage at the sea nor land, 

 nor suffer any to be done in our company that we 

 may let, but rather to defend and protect all other 

 such peaceable marchants as we are, with their ships 

 and goods. 

 [III. 704.] And to the ende that you and others shall know 

 that wee meane as we say, we have given order to 

 our factours to give you good hostages for your 

 assurance of our good fidelities : and further we have 

 sent a testimoniall of our owne true meaning in 

 writing under the seales of this honourable Citie of 

 London, which we wil not discredite by our be- 

 haviours for all the treasure that you have: and so 

 we have written to your magistrates of your port, 

 and others in Spanish, the copy whereof we send you 

 herewith enclosed in English. And if the time should 

 fal out so contrary to our expectations, that there 

 should not be fine white sugar sufficient to lade our 

 said ship in due time at Santos, then we pray you 

 direct our factours where they may goe with the shippe 

 in safetie to supply their want, and helpe them to a 

 good sure Pilot for that purpose, and write your 

 letters to your friends where the best sugar is made 

 in their favours, and helpe our factours to have a 

 testimoniall from Santos, that they and you traded 

 together friendly, and so departed in good and perfect 

 amitie, and shew them that the just cause of our com- 

 ming is to trade as marchants peaceably, and not as 

 Pirats to commit any offence to one or other. 



Also we pray you, if there be any store of waxe, or 

 salt-peeter, whereby the price there may yeeld us as 



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