LETTER TO JOHN WHITHALL 



A.D. 

 1580. 



A copie of the letters of the Adventurers for 

 Brasill sent to John Whithall dwelling in 

 Santos, by the Minion of London. Anno 

 1580. the 24. of October in London. 



Aster Whithall, as unacquainted wee 

 commend us unto you, &c. under- 

 standing by your friends, M. John 

 Bird, M. Robert Walkaden, and your 

 brother James Whithall of certaine 

 letters that they have received of yours 

 from Santos, which wee have seene and 

 read, wherein from time to time you doe require, and 

 desire them to send a good ship to Santos, with such 

 wares and commodities as you did v/rite for, whereby 

 you did not onely promise that they should have good 

 intertainment, but also should sell the saide com- 

 modities to make three of one outward at the least in 

 every thing, and that for to relade their ship backe, they 

 should have of the best, finest, & whitest drie sugars 32. 

 pound of our weight for a ducket at the most. The 

 premises considered, with the great credit that they and 

 we doe give to your writing & promise, have caused us, 

 whose names be hereunder written, to joyne our selves 

 in company together, & to be at great charges pur- 

 posely to send this good ship the Minion of London, 

 not onely with such marchandizes as you wrote for, 

 but also with as many other things as we thought 

 might any wayes pleasure you, or profit the country. 

 And we crave of you, that we and our factors may 

 have so much credite of you, as we have in you and 

 of your letters, which is to beleeve us that we have 

 taken this voyage upon us, with no other minde or 

 purpose, then to deale faithfully and truely in the 

 trade by sea and land, so as you shall not onely 

 have cause to rejoyce, and deserve thanks for our 

 comming, but also you wil procure the magistrates 



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