Broad cloth, kersies, and perpetuanos I think will prove the best comodetie for Japon, and redds and stamettes and blacks best cullers, and, yf they sell not at an instant, yet tyme will vent all. Som other mingled cullers, as cullor du roy or such lyke, will not doe amis; but noe more yello nor straw culler, for that proveth the worst culler of all.
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And tuching that which I wrot your Wors. in my last letters sent from Nangasaque in the junck Godspeed, how that a nobellmans men of this place (called Semi Dono) fell a quarreling with Mr. Edmond Sayer and others, whereupon the King of Firando banished both them and Mr. Sayer, yet now all is revoked per the kinges order and Mr. Sayer cleared and the others recalled. And soe I leave your Wors. with your affares to the holy protection of thallmightie, resting alwais
Your Wors. most humble servant at comande,
Ric. Cocks.
To the Right Worll. the Governour, Deputie Comitties, and generallty of the East India Company deliver in London. By Capt. Martyn Pring in the Royall James, whome God preserve.
[174] India Office. Original Correspondence, vol. vii, no. 911.
Richard Cocks to the E. I. Company.[175]
Firando in Japon, the 20th of January, 1620[1].