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Having this time short warning, have little
else at present, Save my humble Service to
Mr March and Mr Vincent, and m[y] Re-
spects to Mr Haselwood, Jo[nes] and Pea-
cock if with you, and to subscribe my selfe
Your Reall and affectionately Loving Freind
JNO. VICKERS
[Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards Merchant
in Cassumbazar
LETTER XXXV.
Richard Edwards to John Vickers (rough draft).
(O.C. 3438.)
Cassumbuzar June the 30th 1670 To Mr Vickers .
Yours of the 25th Inst. received last night, advising your receipt of mine of the llth and 20th Inst. I am glad my dis- peeding away your Pattana letters by expresse Sorted So well with your desires.
The 27th Inst. received your money due upon the bill, which because it was So late that it could not well be gott in againe timely enough against the Shipping, the Shortest time of investing heer being 4 mos: and then not without remaines, and because Mr March is pleased to Invest what I this year intend for [England] (to whom f[or] that end delivered money above a mo: or 6 weekes agoe), I have, togither with Some more of my owne, delivered your money to him also, who by reason of his large Investment for the Company > himselfe and others, is already Providing Such goods, So that with the Same labour he can provide Such a parcell in the Same time, which, by reason I have not my Selfe begun any Investment, I could not possibly have effected ; and withall, the goods (I doubt not) will be much better, neither will the price, I hope, much exceed what I could have provided them for, Since he promises to doe for us as he does for himselfe, which neither I nor (I believe) you can doubt of, having found him So extreame civill, So that, though I have not comply ed with your orders, yet I hope I shall obtaine your .favourable opinion that it may be for the better, Seing therein I have done no other- wise for you then I have for my Selfe. The money he will Invest, 200 rs. in Lungees, and the other 200 in goods by which him- selfe has gob almost Cent Per Cent by being Small Parcells of Severall things which by acquaintance among the Seamen may be
put off to better advantage then greater
quantitys.
The goods he would have you to take along with you, and endeavour their Sale as Soon as you can, and if after that, you find hat more will vend, he will upon advice Provide Such another Parcell (I Suppose upon the Same account), which being or- dinary 7 goods may comonly be Procured ready made.
Your braid I have (according to my former) Sent to Dacca Per Mr Jones who went hence about a weeke agoe. I hope it will find vend there, but if Mr Smith finds no likelyhood of its Sale there, I have ordered him to Send it back againe, intend- ing to remitt it to you, who possibly in B-igly may Sell it as Soone as in any other place.
As for the fashion of the escritore, I would, if you could conveniently Procure them, have one Small one for a pallankee, of Such kind of worke as Mr Vincents, if ever you Saw it (or of any other but those that are inlay'd with flowers or Such Small worke, because with tumbling about, they pre- sently* are Spoyled), and one large one either with doors or the Same fashion that Mr Peacock's was, and any 7 Sorte of worke, being there will not be much occasion of removing it, both which I would entreate you to Procure, Provided the amount be not much above 20 rs. If not easily to be gott and at that rate, then pray get either of them, the Small one or the large one.
If while you are att Ballasore, whither I wish your safe arrivall, Mr White Should arrive the[re] (the time of his returne now drawinfg n]eer),f pray enquir[e of] him whither he hath sold my Silke Stockings or n[o. If] he hath, what he hath invested their Produce in, and if it [be] in Metchle- patam trade, pray doe me the kindnesse to desire him to get for me about the value of 40 rs. in ShirazJ and ro[se] water, and assoone as I have news of his arrivall, I shall order his payment, and Shall write to you about it's sending up.
I have not more to enlarge, Save to Returne you many thanks for your Promise that when you Speake to Mr Bridges you will returne my humble thanks to him also, and by this way remember you how truly I conforme to your desire to make use of you, or rather indeed to begg pardon of you, that for one thing wherein you use me,
- Quickly, speedily.
t See the reason for White's delay, Letter XXIV.
J Shiraz wine from Persia.
