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46 VOYAGES OF SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY AND OTHERS,
nearer hereafter, becaufe the fhips may not tarry long for their lading, which is one
thoufand miles from Vologda by water, and all our merchants fhall bring all our mer-
chandife to Colmogro to you, and fo fhall our merchants neither go empty nor come
empty: for if they lack lading homeward, there is falt, which is good ware here, that
they may come loaden again. So we were very glad to hear that, and did agree to
his faying: for we fhall neverthelefs, if we lift, have a houfe at Vologda, and at the
Mofco, yea, and at Novogrode, or where we will in Rufland: but the three-and-
twentieth of this prefent we were with the fecretary, and then among other talk, we
moved, that if we fhould tarry at Colmogro with our wares, and fhould not come to
Vologda, or further to feek our market, but tarry ftill at Colmogro, and then the
merchants of the Mofco and others fhould not come and bring their wares, and fo the
fhips fhould come, and not have their lading ready, that then it were a great lofs and
hindrance for us: then faid he again to us, that the merchants had been again together
with him, and had put the like doubt, that if they fhould come and bring their wares
to Colmogro, and that they fhould not find wares there fufficient to ferve them, that
then they fhould be at great lofs and hindrance, they leaving their other trades to fall
to that: and to that we did anfwer, that after the time that we do appoint with them
to bring their wares to Colmogro, God willing, they fhould never come thither, but at
the beginning of the year, they fhould find that our merchants would have at the leaft
for a thoufand robles, although the fhips were not come: fo that he faid, that then we
muft talk further with the merchants: fo that as yet I know not, but that we fhall have
need of one houfe at Colmogro, and another at Vologda, and if that they bring not
their wares to Colmogro, then we fhall be fure to buy fome at Vologda, and to be out
of bondage.
And thus may we continue three or four years, and in this fpace we fhall know the
country and the merchants, and which way to fave ourfelves beit, and where to plant
our houfes, and where to feek for wares: for the Mofco is not beft for any kind of wares
for us to buy, fave only wax, which we cannot have under feven-pence the Ruffle
pound, and it lacks two ounces of our pound, neither will it be much better cheap,
for ] have bidden fix-pence for a pound. And I have bought more, five hundred
weight of yarn, which ftands me in eight-pence farthing the Ruffle pound one with
another. And if we had received any ftore of money, and were difpatched here, of
that we tarry for, as I doubt not but we fhall be fhortly (you know what I mean), then
as foon as we have made fale, I do intend to go to Novogrode, and to Plefco, whence all
the great number of the beft tow flax cometh, and fuch wares as are there I truft to
buy part. And fear you not but we will do that may be done, if God fends us health,
defiring you to prepare fully for one fhip to be ready in the beginning of April to depart
off the coaft of England.
Concerning all thofe things which we have done in the wares, you fhall receive a
perfect note by the next bearer (God willing) for he that. carrieth thefe from us is a
merchant of Terwill, and he was caufed to carry thefe by the commandment of the
Emperor his fecretary, whofe name is Juan Mecallawich Wefkawate, whom we take
to be our very friend. And if it pleafe you to fend any letters to Dantifke to Robert
Elfor, or to William Watfon’s fervant Dunftan Walton to be conveyed to us, it may
pleafe you to enclofe ours in a letter fent from you to him, written in Polifh, Dutch,
Latin, or Italian: fo enclofed coming to the Mofco to his hands, he will convey our
letters to us wherefoever webe. And I have written to Dantifke already to them for
the conveyance of letters from thence.
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