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4 VOYAGES OF SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY AND OTHERS,
15. Item, no liquor to be fpilt on the ballaft, nor filthinefs to be left within board ;
the cook-room and all other places to be kept clean, for the better health of the com-
pany; the gromals and pages to be brought up according to the laudable order and
ufe of the fea, as well in learning of navigation, as in exercifing of that which to them
appertaineth.
16. Item, the liveries in apparel given to the mariners be to be kept by the mer-
chants, and not to be worn, but by the order of the captain, when he fhall fee caufe to
mutter or fhew them in good array, for the advancement and honour of the voyage, and
the liveries to be re-delivered to the keeping of the merchants, until it fhall be thought
convenient for every perfon to have the full ufe of his garment.
17. Item, when any mariner-or any other paflenger fhall have need of any necef-
fary furniture of apparel for his body, and confervation of his health, the fame thall be
delivered him by the merchant, at the aflignment of the captain and matter of that fhip,
wherein fuch needy perfon fhall be, at fuch reafonable price as the fame coft, without
any gain to be exacted by the merchants, the value thereof to be entered by the mer-
chant in his book, and the fame to be difcounted off the party’s wages that fo fhall re-
ceive and wear the fame.
18. Item, the fick, difeafed, weak, and vifited perfon within board, to be tendered,
relieved, comforted, and helped, in the time of his infirmity; and every manner of perfon,
without refpeét, to bear another’s burthen, and no man to refufe fuch labour as fhall be
put to him, for the moft benefit and public wealth of the voyage and enterprife to be
atchieved exactly.
19. Item, if any perfon fhall fortune to die, or mifcarry in the voyage, fuch apparel
and other goods, as he fhall have at the time of his death, is to be kept by the order of
the captain-and matter of the fhip, and an inventory to be made of it, and conferved to
the ufe of his wife and children, or otherwife according to his mind and will, and the
day of his death to be entered in the merchant’s and {teward’s books, to the intent it may
be known what wages he fhall have deferved to his death, and what fhall reft due to him.
20. Item, that the merchants appointed for this prefent voyage fhall not make any
fhew or fale of any kind of merchandifes, or open their commodities to any foreign
princes, or any of their fubjects, without the confent, privity, or agreement of the cap-
tains, the cape merchants, and the afliftants, or four of them, whereof the captain.
general, the pilot-major, and cape merchant to be three, and every of the petty mer-
chants to fhew his reckoning to the cape merchant, when they or any of them fhall be
required: and no commutation or truck to be made by any of the petty merchants,
without the aflent abovefaid: and all wares and commodities trucked, bought, or given
to the company by way of merchandife, truck, or any other refpect, to be booked by
the merchants, and to be well ordered, packed, and conferved in one mafs entirely, and
not to be broken or altered, until the fhip fhall return, to the right difcharges, and inven-
tory of all goods, wares, and merchandifes fo trucked, bought, or otherwife difpended,
to be prefented to the governor, confuls, and affiftants in London, in good order, to the
intent the king’s majefty may be truly anf{wered of that which to his grace by his grant
of corporations is limited, according to our moft bound duties, and the whole company
alfo to have that which by right unto them appertaineth, and no embezzlement {hall be
ufed, but the truth of the whole voyage to be opened, to the commonwealth and benefit
of the whole company and myftery, as appertaineth, without guile, fraud, or mal engine.
21. Item, no particular perfon, to hinder or prejudicate the common {tock of the
company, in fale or preferment of his own proper wares and things, and no particular
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