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in England, and gett double coppies thereof, that by severall conveyances weo
may send them home to the Comp ■.
Weo p.f.sumo that in the matter of want of waight in the silke formerly
sent homo you have not been faileing in your reasons to the Comp-*., to wipe
away all sinister doubts and constructions, w®£. such broake in waight hath
begotten, neverthelosse it will not bo improper but rather convenient that you
make us also privyo to tho same, where unto as in all things olco concerning
the genorall affaires, weo doe rely on yoJ- discreet performance and confor­
mities.
I The Comp.*, are very instant, as well with us as you, about the 35 Bales of
silke W-Sl? long sinoe you delivered in barter of private mens goods, to know
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who were the p.priotors and to give reason why you advised not thereof at the
first.
The fraight that is due upon the goods of “ Sir Or land,j” we intended not
to excuse uppon any fayned pJLtence whatsoever.
And for the sufferings of Mji Boutbbye, wlk the severall passages recipro.
call accusations, and invectives twixt him and MJL Wilde Ell wee will leave
them to the impartiall oensures of o'- imployers at home, and will silence oJL
owne opinions there uppon, leaving them to stand or fall as their severall atten­
tion shall deserve.
Peril* to be made The losse of the “ Charles ” and “ Jonas ” their Monsoone this yoare for
the laat port of
difpatcb. England, hath begotten a resolution in us to avoyd the like inconvenience for
the pe-Lsent, by makying Persia tbe last port of dispatch to the home bound
shipps “ Discoverye ** and “ Reformation yoJL acc of the old joynt stocke
therefore, together wi^ that of the new should bo in a roadyness, namely one
coppie of each to be sent to the Comp±- by that conveyance, and the others to
bee dispeeded unto us, wherein if any remaynes of either, you may have
recourse to the Comp”, orders heere w£ all, appointing how you shall gov-
erne yoJiselves in its valluation and transport from one aocJL to another.
Wee will not fayle to correspond wS- yoJi desires in sending the p.ticular
accompt of mens fraights from hence together wlj- their entryes in Custome
House if possibly to be p.cured, and on the contrary shall expect like in you
to compare the same w^ their entryes there; and for whatsoever goods landed
over and above the specified, though they should endeav £. to passe them under
the name and tytle of surplus of pi visions you exact for the same fraight and
custome, that from thence they may cease pester oJL shipps w$ unnecessary
timber, whereunto they are incited out of some conceaved assurance of injoy-
ing the same w.£ out pay2l of either fraight or oustomes as aforesaid; the
repartition w^l you made of the fraight from thence last yeare, hath been
justly rectified here according to the coppie of Mjl Clements accompt here
inclosed, it not being reasonable that either acc should allowe itselfe any
greater p-Lportion thereof then was the amount of such fraight as the shipp
belonging to each stock were capable of, especially when all of them were full
and goods left behinde for want of roome to stow them.
And heere properly it is fit wee give yoJL knowledge how that by reason
of an extraordynary drowth, bringing wik it an unyversall dearth over all this
country, the like whereof not knowen either in the memorye of man or historye,
as of all sorts of graine, soe of Cerques Indico in pJLticular wee shall finde an
exceeding greate soarcitie; that of the last yeares growth being wholly bought
upp allready by those merchants, who the last yeare takeing passage in our

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