your letters, and despatch away, you shall demand whether all the
goods be laden that were brought thither, and to know the truth
thereof you shall repair to the company's storehouse there, at St.
Nicholas, to see if there be any goods left in the said storehouse;
if there be, you shall demand why they be not had laden, and to note
what kind of goods they be, that be so left; and seeing any of the
ships there, not fully laden, you shall put the agent in remembrance
to lade those goods so left, if any such be to be laden, as is
aforesaid. And thus, God sending you a fair wind, to make speed and
away.

12. Finally, when God shall send you to arrive again upon this
coast in safety, either at Harwich or elsewhere, go not you ashore,
if you may possible, to the end that when you be gone ashore there
may no goods be sent privily ashore to be sold, or else to be sold
aboard the ship in your absence, but keep you still aboard, if you
can by any means, for the causes aforesaid, and write the company a
letter from the ship of your good arrival, which you may convey to
them by land, by some boy or mariner of the ship, or otherwise as
you shall think best and likewise when God shall send you and the
ship into the river here, do not in any wise depart out of the ship
that you be in, until the company do send some other aboard the
ship, in your stead and place, to keep the said ship in your
absence.


A DISCOURSE


Of the honourable receiving into England of the first Ambassador