East Indies: September 1607 | 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: September 1607', 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/pp158-159 [accessed 29 November 2024].

September 1607



Sept. 1–22.	378. Court Minutes of the East India Company. The 50 adventurers who have already written for 550l. each, plainly declaring that they will not be tied to adventure further in a fifth voyage, it is ordered that the money already adventured shall be wholly employed in setting forth two ships only at Christmas next and for building one ship or shipping for the year following. Thos. Cutler, an adventurer of 550l., admitted, as also John Holloway and Wm. Walton, each adventuring 183l. 6 s .8d .under him; Rich. Fusse is likewise admitted under John Bonham. John Grimston hired.
	Sept. 4.—Payment of 6,000l. by the adventurers of the third voyage to the old stock. The Earl of Cumberland's debt of 495l. for two supplies to the second voyage. Money owing by Mr. Cordell, Wm. Chambers, Sir Leonard Hallyday, Mr. Leat, Sir Thos. Cambell, and Mr. Staper. Difference in Wm. Starkey's accounts. Beads and cloth, “very much moth eaten,” sold to the governor Sir Thos. Smythe for 3l. 5s. . for the Virginia voyage. Discharge of 60l. “broke” upon Mrs. Offley alias Lady Bromley's accounts. The remainder of the spices to be sold. Mr. Paslowe to render an account.
	Sept. 5.mdash; Proportion of provisions to be prepared by the persons mentioned for the fourth voyage. Each adventurer to pay to the governor or Rich. Atkinson, appointed cashier, his 500l. by four equal monthly payments, the first of 125l. by end of September, and the last by 31st December. To confer with Mr. Grove to go as master of one of the ships, Mr. Hiccocke's kinsman as mate, and Jos. Salbancke as purser. Factors and masters to be agreed with. Mr. Greet's dock at Deptford to be hired at 30l. a year. John Harper and Henry Guie admitted under Geo. Bennett, one of the 50 adventurers.
	Sept, 9.—Mr. Cordell's account. All the adventurers in the third voyage to be summoned to agree upon payment of 6,000l. to the old stock. Accounts of the last voyage to be cleared. Conditions for payment of 100l. dividend upon every single share of 250l. of the old adventurers. Request of Sir Jas. Lancaster for an allowance at Michaelmas next of 2,000l. for his profit of adventure “for that he hath then some extraordinary occasion of use thereof.”
	Sept. 22.—Grove, the master, his mate, and a purser to be conferred with to go the voyage. Committee appointed to set down a fit proportion of provisions for shipping and merchandise. 80 oxen thought needful for the voyage. Thos. Whiteley, one of the 50 adventurers, sworn a free brother. [Ten pages. Court Bk., II., 50–55.]