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9. Every Adventurer shall have a bill of Adventure from the Threr for his 

 particular, and faire books shall be kept of all buyings and sellings, settings 

 out and returnes wherby once in the yeare every one shall know how his 

 monyes are imployed and how his stocke in that particular stands. 



10. It will be necessary that the Adventurers or the greater part of them 

 meet at tymes to conferre of their affaires and to order their Bussinesses 

 wherein noe man of them shall be excluded from his vote, or to auoyd the 

 trubling a multitude, a Committee may be chosen out of them and their 

 meetings to be at the house of Captaine Mason in Fanchurch Street. 



11. Seeing that this worke doth tend very much to setting a Morke the 

 poore of this Kingdom, which for the most part are now idle and vagrants, if 

 his Ma tie shalbe pleased to graunt to this Company in favour of this their 

 Enterprise 6 ackres of Broomfeild Close neer Deptford for building worke- 

 houses and habitations for the poore that shalbe imployed in spinning and 

 makeing netts. The Cittye of London may be induced to build the said houses 

 at their charge, or S r Henry Martyn out of the mony for Pious vses may 

 build them in a short tyme and the stocke shall be made to sett the poor on 

 worke by theise Adventurers. 



APPENDIX F. 



DESCRIPTION OF LEWIS BY CAPTAIN DYMES (1630). 

 State Papers. Domestic. Chas. I. Vol. 180. No. 97. 



A breife Description of the Isle of the Leweis beinge one of the Islands of y e 

 Hebrides subiect to his Ma te Kingdome of Scotland wherein is contained 

 the nature of the soyle, y c manners of y e people the severall fishings and 

 theire seasons alsoe the places most comodious for a free towne or Mart 

 for traffique, accordinge as it was ordered to bee done by certaine of the 

 Lords of his Ma ts most hono ble privie Councell and performed in Anno 

 1630 by Captaine John Dymes. 



This Island Leogea soe called from Leogus the sonne of a Danish Kinge 

 vv ch heretofore possessed the same is no we called Leweis. It lyeth in the 

 Ducalidon sea and is the northermost of all the Hebrides vnder the Lattitude 

 of 60 degrees, about some 33 Leagues to the west south west of the Isles of 

 Orkeney. The Climate is somethinge colder then ours here in England, but 

 the ayre very wholesome as doth appeare by the healthfull bodyes and long 

 lives of the inhabitants, there beinge divers yet livinge some of an hundred 

 and some of sixscore yeares of age, w ch have lustie and able bodyes, there was 

 one now yet livinge at my beinge there whom the inhabitants did affirme vnto 

 mee to bee an hundred and fowerscore yeares of age. In somer when theire 

 dayes bee at the longest the sunne doth remaine soe short a space beneath 

 theire Horizon that they have noe night at all and yett theire shortest daie in 

 Winter is almost as longe as ours here in England. 



This Island is in length from north to south about threescore miles and in 

 breadth in some places 12: some 14: and some places 20: miles. The land is 

 very mountaineous, w oh causeth great store both of fresh and salt water, 

 Loughes and Bayes w ch aboundeth w th all sorts of fish espetially Herring, 

 Cod, and Ling and great stoare of Whales w 011 followes the other Fish for 

 prey. 



The inward part of the land is altogeather like vnto the Highlands of 

 Scotland full of heath and boggs, and affordeth the inhabitants noe other 

 thinge then grasse for theire catle in sommer and fewell to burne in winter, 



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