oil or other commodity is to be had there at this time, or any other
season of the year; and whether there will be had or found
sufficient lading for both the said ships to be bought there, and
how they may confer with the naturals for a continuance in haunting
the place, if profit will so arise to the company; and to consider
whether the Edward in her return may receive at the Wardhouse any
kind of lading homeward, and what it may amount unto, and whether it
shall be expedient for the Philip to abide at Wardhouse the return
of the Edward out of Russia, or getting that she may return with the
first good wind to England without abiding for the Edward; and so to
conclude and accord certainly among themselves upon their arrival
that the certainty may (upon good deliberation) be so ordered and
determined between both ships that the one may be assured of the
other; and their determinations to be put in writing duplicate to
remain with each ship, according to such order as shall be taken
between them.

18. Item, that John Brooke, our merchant for the Wardhouse, take
good advice of the rest of our agents how to use himself in all
affairs while the ship shall be at the Wardhouse; he to see good
order to be kept, and make bargains advisedly, not crediting the
people until their natures, dispositions, and fidelities shall be
well tried; make no debts, but to take ware for ware in hand, and
rather be trusted than to trust. Note diligently what be the best
wares for those parts, and how the fish falleth on the coast, and by
what means it is to be bought at the most advantage, what kinds and
diversities of sorts in fishes be, and whether it will keep better
in bulk piled or in cask.

19. Item, he to have a diligent eye and circumspection to the beer,