66 A LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS 



remooveing or settling in such place and places as you and 

 your Councell shall appoinct that by emulation one with 

 annother they may by their industrie, discouer the Trade, giue 

 you large information, redress such euill Custome as they finde 

 gather goodes together to dispatch the shippes richly and 

 speedilie to you againe to looke yt their charges beenot exces- 

 siue and that they send their accompts and Copies of their 

 Bookes orderlie vnto you contynuallie, where wee wishe you to 

 haue a speciall Care for the pervseing Comptrolling or allowing 

 of the accompts and soo post them ouer vnto your generall 

 bookes. And as often as you shall thinck itt expedient, that 

 the rilCtor himself come to giue vpp his said Accompts 

 ffmm which place of Jacatra or Banta both for your healthes 

 sake as otherwise wee would not haue you goe vnles itt were 

 for some extraordinarie and waightie occasion and so allowed 

 by your Councell : ffor by the Contynuall coming of our shippes 

 from England, of the Pinnaces from the Indies, and the 

 giueing good orders for goodes to bee in a readines for the 



reladeing of our shippes in tyme for all places you shall 



from you that nd not finding the gouer- 



ment as it ought take order therein, either remooueing 



such psons, and putting others in their places, or ells to 



redresse their faults according as the matter requireth, of which 

 his proceeding hee is afterwards to make an vpright report to 

 you, whereby you may bee of all thinges well Informed, both 

 in the poinct of Trade, the Charges gouerment, and all other 

 matters, and by your good care, industrie with mildne3,keepe all 

 in subiection. Likewise that you hereby may take Care ouer 

 the victualls and provizions of our shippes that come out and 

 goe for England, to take accompts of them howe the same is 

 spent and what may bee spared to take a shoare for the pro- 

 vizion of other shippes and the Pinnaces that tarrie in the 

 Countrie. 



And for the better gouerment of all the ffactories we 

 hould itt fitt you Choose four principall places where the cheife 

 persons ought to bee resident vizt. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



