INSTRUCTIONS TO EDWARD FENTON a.d. 



1582. 



or other matter of commoditie, shall with all speede, or so 

 soone as he can, detect the same, and make deliverie 

 thereof to your selfe, or you Viceadmirall, or Lieuetenant, 

 and the Factor appointed for this voyage, upon paine of 

 forfeiture of all the recompense he is to have for his 

 service in this voyage by share or otherwise : and further 

 to receive such punishment, as to you & your Assis- 

 tants, or the more part of them shal seeme good, and 

 otherwise to be punished here at his returne, if ac- 

 cording to the qualitie of his offence it shalbe thought 

 needfull. 



16 Item, if the Captaines, Marchants or any other, 

 shall have any apparell, jewels, chaines, armour, or any 

 other thing whatsoever, which may bee desired in coun- 

 treys where they shall traffique, that it shall not bee 

 lawfull for them or any of them to traffique, or sell 

 any thing thereof for their private accompt : but the same 

 shall bee prized by the most part of those that shall bee in 

 commission in the places where the same may be so 

 required, rated at such value, as it may bee reasonably 

 worth in England, and then solde to the profite of the 

 whole voyage, and to goe as in adventure for those to 

 whom it doeth appertains 



1 7 Item you your selfe shall in the Gallion keepe one 

 booke, and the Factors appointed for the same shippe 

 another, wherein shall bee a just accompt kept, aswell of 

 the marchandise carried hence, as of those you shall bring 

 home. And aswell at your setting foorth, as from time 

 to time, as exchange shalbe made, you shall set your hand 

 to their booke, and they theirs to yours, and the like 

 order shal you see that the Captaine and the Factors 

 in the Edward Bonaventure shall use in their ship, 

 and the other Captaines and Factors in each other 

 vessell. 



1 8 Item you shall give straight order to restraine, that 

 none shall make any charts or descriptions of the sayd 

 voyage, but such as shall bee deputed by you the Generall, 

 which sayd charts and descriptions, wee thinke meete that 



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