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the captaine, that my selfe and the rest with money and goods he should
deliuer into the hands of the Aueador generall of India: but at our
arriuall here, the Aueador would neither meddle with goods nor money, for
that he could not proue any thing against vs: wherefore the goods remained
in the ship 9 or 10 daies after our arriual, and then, for that the ship
was to saile from thence, the scriuano sent the goods on shore, and here
they remained a day and a night, and no body to receiue them. In the end
they suffered this bringer to receiue them, who came with me from Ormus,
and put them into an house which he had hired for me, where they remained
foure or fiue daies. But afterward when they should deliuer the money, it
was concluded by the justice, that both the money and goods should be
deliuered into the positors hands, where they remained fourteene dayes
after my comming out prison. At my being in Aleppo, I bought a fountaine of
siluer and gilt, sixe kniues, sixe spoones, and one ['oue' in source
text--KTH] forke trimmed with corall for fiue and twentie chekins, which
the captaine of Ormus did take, and payed for the same twentie pardaos,
which is one hundred larines, and was worth there or here one hundred
chekins. Also he had fiue emrauds set in golde, which were woorth fiue
hundred or sixe hundred crownes, and payed for the same an hundred pardaos.
Also he had nineteene and a halfe pikes of cloth, which cost in London
twenty shillings the pike, and was worth 9 or 10 crownes the pike, and he
payed for the same twelue larines a pike. Also he had two pieces of greene
Kersies, which were worth foure and twentie pardaos the piece, and payd for
them sixteene pardaos a piece: besides diuers other trifles, that the
officers and others had in the like order, and some for nothing at all. But
the cause of all this was Michael Stropene, which came to Ormus not woorth
a penie, and now hath thirtie or fortie thousand crownes, and he grieueth
that any other stranger should trade thither but himselfe. But that shall
not skill, for I trust in God to goe both thither and hither, and to buy
and sell as freely as he or any other. Here is very great good to be done
in diuers of our commodities, and in like manner there is great profite to
be made with commodities of this countrey, to be carried to Aleppo.

It were long for me to write, and tedious for you to read of all things
that haue passed since my parting from you. But of all th