JOHN WHITHALL ad. 



1578. 

 Foure hundred pound of tinne of the use of 



Portugall, most smal dishes and trenchers. 

 Foure pound of silke of all colours. 

 Twentie pound of spices, cloves, cinamom, pepper, 



and saffron. 

 Two kintals of white sope. 



Three pound of threed, white, blacke, and blew. 

 Three pound of fine white threed. 

 Item, halfe a dozen of Northerne karsies of divers 



colours. 

 Foure sorting clothes, blew, red, yellow, and green. 

 Sixe Northerne dozens of divers colours. 

 One fine blew cloth of eight pound. 

 One fine stamell of tenne or twelve pound. 

 One fine sheeps coloured cloth of twelve pound. 

 One fine blacke karsie.j- {One fine stamell karsie. 

 Sixe yards of blacke velvet. 

 Three barrels of nailes for chests. 

 Two barrels of nailes for ships and barks. 

 Sixe kintals of Occom. 



Two dozen of velvet girdles without hangers. 

 Foure yards of taffata red, blacke, and blew, with [III. 703.] 



some greene. 

 Two dozen of leather girdles. 

 Sixe dozen of axes, hatchets, and small billes to cut 



wood. 

 Foure mases of gitterne strings. 

 Foure hundred or five hundred elles of some linnen 

 cloth that is of a low price to make shirts and 

 sheets. 

 Foure tunne of yron. 

 These be such sort of wares as I would you should 

 send. If you meane to deale, or send any ship hither, 

 have you no doubt, but by the helpe of God I shall 

 put all things in good order according to your con- 

 tentment and profit : for my father in lawe with the 

 Captaine and Provedor doe rule this countrey. 



My father in law & I shal (God willing) make 



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