The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol 3 | Page 9

the companie, the gromals and pages to bee brought
vp according to the laudable order and vse of the Sea, as well in
learning of Nauigation, as in exercising of that which to them
appertaineth.
16. Item, the liueries in apparel giuen to the mariners be to be kept by
the marchants, and not to be worne, but by the order of the captaine,
when he shall see cause to muster or shewe them in good aray, for the
aduancement and honour of the voyage, and the liueries to bee
redeliuered to the keeping of the marchants, vntill it shal be thought
conuenient for euery person to haue the ful vse of his garment.
17. Item, when any mariner or any other passenger shal haue neede of
any necessarie furniture of apparell for his body, and conseruation of
his health, the same shall bee deliuered him by the Marchant, at the
assignement of the captaine and Master of that shippe, wherein such
needie person shall be, at such reasonable price as the same cost,
without any gaine to be exacted by the marchants, the value therof to be
entred by the marchant in his booke, and the same to be discounted off
the parties wages, that so shal receiue, and weare the same.
18. Item, the sicke, diseased, weake, and visited person within boord, to
be tendred, relieued, comforted, and holpen in the time of his infirmitie,
and euery maner of person, without respect, to beare anothers burden,
and no man to refuse such labour as shall be put to him, for the most
benefite, and publike wealth of the voyage, and enterprise, to be
atchieued exactly.
19. Item, if any person shal fortune to die, or miscary in the voyage,
such apparell, and other goods, as he shall haue at the time of his death,
is to be kept by the order of the captaine and Master of the shippe, and
an inuentorie to be made of it, and conserued to the vse of his wife, and
children, or otherwise according to his mind, and wil, and the day of his
death to be entred in the Marchants and Stewards Bookes: to the intent
it may be knowen what wages he shall haue deserued, to his death, and
what shall rest due to him.
20. Item, that the Marchants appointed for this present voyage, shall not
make any shew or sale of any kind of marchandizes, or open their

commodities to any forrein princes, or any of their subiects, without the
consent, priuitie, or agreement of the Captaines, the cape Marchants
and the assistants, or foure of them, whereof the captaine generall, the
Pilot Maior, and cape marchant to be three, and euery of the pettie
marchants to shewe his reckoning to the cape marchant, when they, or
any of them shall be required: and no commutation or trucke to be
made by any of the petie marchants, without the assent abouesaid: and
all wares, and commodities trucked, bought or giuen to the companie,
by way of marchandise, trucke, or any other respect, to be booked by
the marchants, and to be wel ordred, packed, and conserued in one
masse entirely, and not to be broken or altered, vntil the shippes shall
returne to the right discharges, and inuentorie of al goods, wares, and
merchandises so trucked, bought, or otherwise dispended, to be
presented to the Gouernor, Consuls, and Assistants in London,
[Marginal note: King Edward's Corporation.] in good order, to the
intent the Kings Maiestie may be truly answered of that which to his
grace by his grant of corporation is limited, according to our most
bound dueties, and the whole companie also to haue that which by right
vnto them appertaineth, and no embezelment shall be vsed, but the
truth of the whole voyage to bee opened, to the common wealth and
benefite of the whole companie, and mysterie, as appertaineth, without
guile, fraude, or male engine.
21. Item, no particular person, to hinder or preiudicate the common
stocke of the company, in sale or preferment of his own proper wares,
and things, and no particular emergent or purchase to be employed to
any seueral profite, vntill the common stocke of the companie shall be
furnished, and no person to hinder the common benefite in such
purchases or contingents, as shal fortune to any one of them, by his
owne proper policie, industrie, or chance, nor no contention to rise in
that behalfe, by any occasion of iewel, stone, pearles, precious mettals,
or other things of the region, where it shall chance the same to rise, or
to be found bought, trucked, permuted, or giuen: but euery person to be
bounden in such case, and vpon such occasion, by order, and direction,
as the generall captaine, and the