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 THE COMPANY'S INSTRUCTIONS TO ITS SERVANTS 255 common family life of the factory, or trade settlement. Unnecessary shooting of salutes when captains went on shore, and the undue discharge of cannon at the drinking of healths, were repressed. Nor without cause, as the Portuguese sometimes spent so much gunpowder in vain ceremonials as not to leave enough to work their guns. Instead of salutes, it was eventually or- dained that the English might cheer. They were to take an example from the Dutch, " who are very care- ful, industrious, and diligent," and to " trust none of the Indians, for their bodies and soules be wholly Trea- son." The company always mingled business with piety, from the fitting out of ships at Deptford to eve- ning prayers in the Spice Islands, or the relief of Eng- lish prisoners at Lisbon to whom it sent two hundred ducats with the admonition " to comfort yourselves in the Lord." " For the better comfort and recreation of such of our factors as are residing in the Indies," runs another document, " we have sent the works of that worthy servant of Christ, Mr. William Perkins," together with Foxe's " Book of Martyrs," and, one is glad to hear, " also Mr. Hackluit's Voyages to recreate their spirits with variety of history." Even their coat of arms, for which they paid " the King of Heralds " twenty marks in 1601, bears witness to the Puritanism of the city merchant of that day. It was not the well-known shield of 1698, with its lions for supporters, a lion hold- ing a crown above, and the stately device of Anspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae. The earlier and almost for-