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A73575 The marchants avizo Very necessarie for their sonnes and seruants, when they first send them beyond the seas, as to Spaine and Portingale or other countreyes. Made by their hartie wellwiller in Christ. I.B. marchant. J. B. (John Browne), 1526?-1595. 1589 (1589) STC 3908.4; ESTC S124654 29,085 78

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THE MARCHANTS AVIZO VERY NECESSARIE FOR THEIR sonnes and seruants when they first send them beyond the seas as to Spaine and Portingale or other countreyes Made by their hartie well willer in Christ I. B. Marchant ECCLES 40.18 To labour and to be content with that a man hath is a sweet life but the feare of God is aboue all c. ANCHORA SPEI Imprinted at London by Richard Field for William Norton dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Queenes armes 1589. CONSTANTINI CRVX IN HOC SIGNO VINCES TO THE VVORSHIPFVL MAISTER THOMAS ALDWORTH MARCHANT of the citie of Bristowe and to all the worshipfull companie of the Marchants of the said citie your bounden in good will Iohn Browne wisheth vnto your worships felicitie in heauen and prosperitie in earth WOrshipfull vpon verie earnest motion persuasion of a friend vnto me to set foorth in publick this matter which I onely had made priuate for instruction of me and mine And then calling to remembrance some necessitie and dutie necessitie because by mine own experience I know how greatly my selfe and many other my countrimen at our first going into Spaine were troubled with difficulties for want of such a patterne as this for ease of our tender wittes And dutie because I acknowledge my self boundē both to your Worship and to all those of my profession to employ my whole labours to do you any pleasure or profit that I might I therefore haue emboldened my selfe to dedicate and offer this my poore myte vnto our Worships wherby not onely your name may therin be still remembred but may also make manifest your kind fauors who are still willing to be furtherers of any generall good Mine owne labour or skill I confesse is but very litle or nothing in this thing because I my selfe do but only as a poore willing labourer to help forwards that worke the foundation platforme wherof is setled and builded alreadie But my chiefe purpose herein is onely to worke a generall ease to all Marchants wherby they may the lesse trouble them selues either with writing inuention or thought of these matters And likewise that it might be some stay to young and weake wits yeelding them therby the more freedome of mind toward their other businesse Being carefull in my selfe to order this worke that not onely as I hope it shal be lawfully permitted to be seene and read in anie parts beyond the * If this booke may not be thought tollerable beyond the seas then will it be yet a good exercise and but litle labour for euery prentice to copie it all out in writing and so carie it with him for his instruction sea but also shal instruct young nouices to vse greater breuitie in their writings then commonly they are wont Wherefore I commit my selfe and my doings first to the praise of God and then to your good acceptance and fauourable patronage Desiring your Worships all that howsoeuer you do determine of the vnabilitie of this my labour yet that you vouchsafe to take in good part the abilitie of my loue and good meaning in it So I rest beseeching God to giue vnto you all eternall felicitie in heauen and prosperitie to your liues end here on earth From my house in Bristow the 26. day of October 1589. Your Worships bounden in good will I. B. MAR. To the Reader WHen marchants trade proceedes in peace And labours prosper well Then common weales in wealth increase As now good * This was spoken when was a long staye of the marchantes trade to the great decay of many a one proofe can tell For when the marchants trade was free His ventures for to make Then euery art in his degree Some gaines thereof did take The marchant made the Clothier rich By venting of his cloth The Clothier then sets many at worke And helpeth euery crafte For first the Spinster hereby liue The Weauer and the Dier By cloth the Shearman also thriue When Marchant is the buyer The Landlord and the Tenant sell By this meanes all their wooll Their Biefe their Corne they sell the more When Marchants purse grow full The Grocer with the Vintener And Mercer profit reape When Spices Silks and Wines come store By Marchants ventures great The Vitler and the Husbandman And handicraftes ech on Makes gaines when Marchāts Ships goods Doe merily come home The Sailers herehence gets their skill To rule the stately Ship And so become right worthy men For Sea and Land most fit Yea diuers more the Marchants trade Doth succour and relieue As Bargeman Craneman Porter eke To him that Cart doth driue Let no man then grudg Marchants state Nor wishe him any ill But pray to God our Queene to saue And Marchants state help still I B THE TABLE OF THOSE things which are contained in this Booke A Generall remembrance for a seruant at his first going to sea folio 1. A letter to send to his maister when he is forced by weather into any Port vpon his voyage folio 8 A letter to be sent presently vpon his arriuall at his Port. folio 9 A letter to be sent next after his first letter that he wrote of his arriuall folio 10 A letter to be sent from his second Port of arriuall folio 12 A letter to be sent in that shippe where he hath laden goods folio 13 A letter to be sent vnto one that hath left some businesse to do vnder your hands folio 14 A letter of thankes to a friend that hath done you some pleasure wherein you also request againe some farther good turne of him folio 15 A letter to desire the goodwill of a friend to helpe you in some matter of your businesse folio 16 Certaine briefe notes worthy obseruation as first of the Kintal or hundred waight of Portingale Spaine and France folio 18 Of the measure of cloth in Portingale Spaine and France folio 19 Of the measure of corne and salt in Portingal Spaine and France folio 20 Of the value of moneyes in Portingale Spaine and France folio 21 A briefe instruction for the better knowledge of diuerse wares of Portingale Spaine and France folio 23 A briefe forme for making a Spanish or any other accompt folio 30 A rule to take out your prouision of two and a halfe in the hundred fol. 32. And also in what sort you must gather it vpon the Impliments folio 34 A rule to bring Portingale Res into Spanish Meruedis folio 46 Diuerse particular notes worthy obseruation as appeareth in euery leafe of the Spanish accompt beginning fol. 30. A forme for making a bill of lading folio 49 A marchants particular remembrance folio 50 A bill of exchange for the countrey of Spaine and elsewhere folio 53 A bill of exchange for our country of England Ibid. An acquittance folio 54 A bill of atturney Ibid. A bill of debt folio 55 A bond or Obligation folio 56 A pollicie for assurance Ibid.