96 TiMEHRI. 



arrival at " Weymaith" pay and deliver to Shelley and 

 Craunfield ;,{^20 sterling more and also allow them 

 all such moneys as they may have occasion to use to the 

 value of £i,ooo. The said John Deane is to sell the 

 tobacco (40,000 lbs.) for the payment of ;^200 aforesaid 

 for the best advantage of the Inhabitants of the Island 

 that he can. And in case the said tobacco shall not 



make penny per lb. " clear of all charges" 



then the said " Councell and Assembled (?) 



shall on or before the ist June next ship aboard such 

 convenient ship as said JOHN Deane shall appoint so 

 much " cleere cotton at the rate of 3 pence per pound as 

 shall be sufficient to satisfy the remainder of the said 

 ;^2oo which the said 48,000 lbs. of tobacco will not make 

 good, " together with the forbearance after the rate of a 

 hundred profitt" as likewise for the satisfyinge of such 

 other money as the said JOHN Deane shall disburse to 

 the said Mr. Edward Cranfield and Capt, Edward 

 SheLLEV over and above the said ;^200 with the like 

 allowance fortie per cent, profitt in cotton at 3 pence a 

 pound as aforesaid. And said JOHN Deane is to get 

 freight for the tobacco and cotton for the same penny 

 halfe-penny per pound, the danger of the seas concerning 

 the said tobacco and cotton to be borne by the Inhabi- 

 tants of the country. 



Dated 19 July, 1639. 

 Witnesses : — Sub : per James Holdipp, 



GEO, STANDDAST. ThOMAS AlRIDGE, JOHN SWANN, 



THOS.REVE Richard Ashton, John Gray, 



WM. TAYLOR. Wm CaRTER. Wm. SpEIGHT, Wm. 



Bingleton, Thomas Batten, Edward Shelley, 

 Edward Cranfield, John Burth, (?) Philip Wood- 



