The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
In primis, Foure peeces of hollands of middle sort.
Item, One peece of fine holland.
Foure hundred elles of osenbriges very fine.
Foure dozen of sizzors of all sorts.
Sixteene kintals of pitch of the Canaries.
Twentie dozen of great kniues which be made in fardles, of a low price.
Foure dozen of a small sort.
Sixe peeces of bayes of the lowest sort.
One very fine peece of bayes.
Four hundred elles of Manchester-cottons, most blacke, greene, some
yellow.
Eight or tenne dozen of hats, the one halfe trimmed with taffata, the
other plaine with the bands of Cypresse.
Sixe dozen of course shirts.
Three dozen of doublets of canuas.
Three dozen of doublets of stiched canuas.
One piece of fine Millan fustian barred.
Sixe dozen of locks for doores and chests.
Sixe thousand of all maner of fish hooks
Four dozen reames of paper.
Two dozen of glasses of diuers sorts.
Two dozen of Venice glasses, the one halfe great, the other middle sort.
Two dozen of mantles of frize, of the lowest price that can be.
Three dozen of frize gownes.
Foure hundred pound of tinne of the vse of Portugall, most smal dishes
and trenchers.
Foure pound of silke of all colours.
Twentie pound of spices, cloues, cinamon, pepper, and saffron.
Two kintals of white sope.
Three pound of threed, white, black, and blew.
Three pound of fine white threed.
Item, halfe a dozen of Northerne karsies of diuers colours.
Foure sorting clothes, blew, red, yellow, and green.
Sixe Northerne dozens of diuers colours.
One fine blew cloth of eight pound.
One fine stamell of tenne or twelue pound.
One fine sheeps coloured cloth of twelue pound.
One fine blacke karsie. One fine stamell karsie.
Sixe yards of blacke veluet.
Three barrels of nailes for chests.
Two barrels of nailes for ships and barks.
Sixe kintals of Occom.
Two dozen of veluet girdles without hangers.
Foure yards of taffata red, blacke, and blew, with some greene.
Two dozen of leather girdles.
Sixe dozen of axes, hatches, and small billes to cut wood.
Foure mases of gitterne strings.
Foure hundred or fiue hundreds elles of some linnen cloth that is of a
low price to make shirts and sheets.
Foure tunne of yron.
These be such sort of wares as I would you should send. If you meane to
deale, or send any ship hither, haue you no doubt, but by the helpe of
God I shall put all things in good order according to your contentment
and profit: for my father in lawe with the Captaine and Prouedor doe
rule this countrey.
My father in law and I shal (God willing) make a good quantitie of sugar
euery yeere, which sugar we intend to ship for London from henceforth,
if we can get such a trustie and good friend as you to deale with vs in
this matter. I pray you presently after the receit of this my letter to
write mee answere thereof and send your letter to M. Holder to Lisbone,
and he wil conuey it to me out of hand.
Besides the premisses send sixe yards of skarlet, parchment lace of
diuers colours.
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