THE JOURNALL OR DAILYE BOOK OF ALL ACCURRANTES HAPPENYNG, BEGUN AT FIRANDO, IN JAPON, PER ME RIC. COCKS, LE 1TH DAY OF JUNE, 1615, STILO VETRI
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June 1.—We bought 5 greate square postes of the kinges master carpenter; cost 2 mas 6 condrins per peece. And I delivered unto Nicholas Martyn one small bar gould, cost eight riall of eight and a half, is six taies eight mas, for which he is answerable. Also I delivered a great bar gold, poz. fowre taies and fowre mas and two condrins, rated at iiftie and five taies as yt cost; and is to send to Capt. Whowe, the Capt. Chinas brother, at Langasaque; to geve in a present at a christning, as apereth per advice.
Also I paid, per Mr. Nealson, for washing linen, two mas 6 condrins.
And late within night Mr. Wickham arived here in company of Damian Marines, and brought word the junck was at Goto, they being put from Liquea to have proceaded on their voyage for Syam; but, being at sea, the unruly cornpanie would have gon for Cochinchina, and so Mr. Wickham standing against it, remembring our former losse theare (as I gave hym in comition), they retorned back for these partes. Capt. Adames hath wrot me that the boateswaine and carpenter are in most falte, being mutenouse knaves, etc.
June 2.—Capt. Adames and Ed. Sayer wrot me 2 letters from Goto of 30th May; and Mr. Adames sent me a bag of potatos, and Ed. Sayer sent me a pece lik lynen (or rather silk) and the lyke to Mr. Eaton and Mr. Nealson. And Mr. Wickham gave me a jar of potatos. And Damian Marines brought me a dish of plantians and another of pottatos, etc. I receved a letter from Jno. de Lievano, the Spaniard.
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- Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615–1622With Correspondence, pp. 1 - 349Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1883