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in the trade, that they knowe better then wee ho we to make 

 proffitt, ffor besides ye sortment they buy them better Cheape, 

 and are at lesse charges, but they make great profitt in that 

 they sell, ffor if they find not their price in Achiri they 

 presentlie hire a praye and go alongst the Coast not spareing 

 any Brooke, much less any Eiuer or Towne whereby the lesse 

 sales will att first bee found ; The King forbiddeth all strange 

 Nations to trade at Priaman and Tecoa except they first 

 come to Achin and gett order from him, for which hee did 

 fforfeyt and Confiscate a Guseratt shippe, but ouer our 

 shippes hee hath no power, yet in Achin little is to bee done, 

 and the Coast of Sumatra a perillous Coast, so that it were 

 expedient to put on this Coast no more with their great ship- 

 ping, but with a small shipp yearly expresly for trade with 

 them haueing also a Pinnace of 3. or 4. tonnes which may 

 contynuallie goe and come betweene that and the Coast of 

 Bantam, which shipps should bee furnished with such 

 Surat, Coromandell and Bengala sortes of Cloth as are 

 there most requested, the Shippe may fittest ly in TV COO to 

 buy vpp all the Pepper of the Circumiacent places and the 

 Pinnasse to lye in the Uiucr of Cattaganga and deale for 

 the gould of Mununcabo which is brought thither beeing 

 vnder the dominion of the King of Achin, and so might 

 yearlie bee had about 1000. Bahars Pepper and 15. in 20. 

 V (?) Rs. in gould and by this meanes the Guzerats and 

 Calinders would quicklie bee driven from thence and the trade 

 fall to the Companie, ffor they must of Necessitie seeke out 

 places for the venting of the India Clothes or ells the trade 

 of Surat, Coromandell and Bengala is worth nothing, 

 And although at the first they should sell itt good Cheape yett 

 itt would bee a good begining, and with Corespondencie iov the 



sortes of Cloth mainteyned although not with 



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