68 A LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS 



Moreouer wee thinck ifcfc requesite for your more ease that 

 euerie ffactorie shall give a3compt vnto such Directors as are 

 ouer them, and the Director to keepe generall bookes, whereby 

 hee may see the estate of eche ffactorie, To which ende euerie 

 Director is to haue a Bookekeeper ioyned with him as a 

 Secretaire whereby the generall Bookekeeper ouer the Indies 

 resident with you may bee eased of a greate trouble, and many 

 errors and mistakeinges prevented, all places provided with 

 principall heades, your aucthoritie kept in reputation and the 

 whole estate to be euerie yeare sett and sent vs in Ballance 

 and thereby the gaine & losse which euerie place yeildeth 

 will presentlie bee found out, and so accordinglie remeadie 

 provided for the same. 



Neither doo wee thinck itt fitt, that the Directors should 

 bee bound to keepe their residence in one place, but to bee in 

 their power to visit their ffactories vncler them, from place to 



place to prevent all vise An shall 



come vnto you wee w spectes according to their 



estate, and ha places and voices amongst your Counsell. 



Moreouer we hould it convenient that euerie Direct 



haue 4. or 5. of the best experienced to ymploy in the ffactories 

 that are vnder his Commaund and each Factorie to haue 3. 

 or 4. Newe Comers, one to learne the Languadge 'which in 

 tyme wilbee verie available vnto our affaires, and by degrees 

 in case of mortallitie, or otherwise may rise in succession ac- 

 cording as they may seeme to deserve. And for further Light 

 vnto the Trade of all those partes wee haue thought fitt to annex 

 herevnto such discriptions and intelligences as wee haue receau- 

 ed and gathered out of such advises as wee haue had from our 

 ffactors whereof you may make such vse, as you find most 

 convenient. 



The Discription of Zeilan. Zeilan in it self is a rich 

 Hand and hath the best Cinamon of all the Indies, it hath also 

 some Kubies, Spinels, Cattes eyes the best and finest of all the 

 worlde, onlie they are not found in any quantitie, and such a,s 

 are found come for the most parte into the handes of the 



Jour Straits Branch 



