East Indies: June 1603 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1864.

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'East Indies: June 1603', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, ed. W Noel Sainsbury( London, 1864), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/pp138-139 [accessed 29 November 2024].

June 1603



June 4–28.	321. Court Minutes as above. Warrant for 24s. for keeping the two pinnaces.
	June 6._Letters received from Roger Style and Ed. Highlord, of the Ascension, concerning the state of the voyage, the ports that have been visited for trade, and how many of the Company‘s men died on the voyage; good hope conceived that the voyage will fall out, such as may minister encouragement to set out another for further discovery of parts of the East Indies.
	June 9.—Letters to be written to the West country to provide for the comfort and relief of all who are sick in the Ascension, and to require the factors and other officers of the ships to forbear, under any pretence, to break bulk or make sale of anything belonging to the general adventure. Merchants in the towns of Plymouth, Dartmouth, &c., to be selected, to whom letters are to be directed, and to whose charge the money required for the use of such sick men as come ashore from the ships, is to be entrusted.
	June 16.—The Ascension in the river. Choice of convenient places or warehouses for her goods. Men to be appointed to go aboard until the ship be unladen. Disposal of the merchandise; persons named to go down to the ship, and take orders that no one take anything out of the ship. Four to go aboard at 6 a.m. the next day, to be relieved every morning, and attend until the ship be discharged. The Admiral‘s tenths of prizes taken in the East Indies; Capt. Lancaster writes that the commodities taken are not vendible here, but more fit to be sold in the Indies. Canvas bags to be made for the pepper; also six suits of canvas without pockets for as many porters to be employed in filling the pepper. Entry to be made in the custom house of the goods in the Ascension, consisting of 210,000 lbs. of loose pepper, 1,100 lbs. of cloves, 6,030 lbs. of cinnamon, and 4,080 lbs. of gum lacquer. 51. to Mr. Middleton, of Plymouth, for bringing the first report of the arrival of the Ascension.
	June 21.—Alderman Cambell, governor, and John Eldred, on behalf of the Company, agree to be bound to the customers for the subsidy due to the King for the goods brought home in the Ascension. Cellarage to receive the goods. Names of those appointed to be at the waterside to see them warehoused; the bookkeeper to be present to make tickets for the carmen. Others appointed to weigh the goods and keep a note of the weight. Warrants for 56s. to the wife of John May, master mate of the Susan, a month_s wages, and 6l. for pilotage for bringing the Ascension into the river.
	June 23.—Alderman Cambell and John Eldred, bound for 917l. or thereabouts for the King‘s customs, to have the common seal of the Company to save them harmless. Sir John Hart and Robt. Chamberlain, Paul Bannyng and Alderman Watts enter into two several bonds for 1,000l. each, to be continued at interest for three months, on behalf of the Company, for payment of the mariners; a course to be taken hereafter for such sums of money as there may be occasion for. General commission to the committee, from time to time, to proceed to sale of the goods now brought home, and to take the best opportunity in their discretion for that purpose.
	June 28.—The above bonds sealed. [Six pages and a half. Court Bk, I., 102–105.]