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Thus for present I committ yow and your affaires unto the protection of the Almighty.
Your loveinge frend to commaund,
Raphe Coppindall.
Yow are to note that the people of this cuntry doe not buy our sortes of India cloth soe much for necessity as for the new and strange fashions and painteinges thereof, being a people desireinge change; for they have greate store of silkes and linnen stuffes made here better and cheaper then we can afford our India cloth. Soe that we must strive to procure strange sortes of cloth with strange painteinges every yeare; but such cloth as hath any redd painteinge will not sell here. The Hollanders sell English broade cloth for 7 and 8 tayes the tattamy, which is 21⁄3 yardes at the leaste. The devell hawle some of them for theire paines.
To his very loveinge frendes, Mr. Robert Larkin and Mr. Adam Denton, English merchantes, deliver in Patania. Per Capt. Adams, per way of Syam, whom God preserve.
[157] India Office. Original Correspondence, vol. iii, no. 317.
Richard Cocks to [John Gourney].[158]
Firando in Japon, le 6th of December, 1615.