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 Moreouer wee thinck itt requesite for your more case that euerie ffactorie shall give accompt vnto such Directors as are ouer them, and the Director to keepe generall bookes, whereby hee may see the estate of eche ffactorie, To which ende euerie Director is to haue a Bookekeeper ioyned with him as a Secretarie whereby the generall Bookekeeper ouer the Indies resident with you may bee eased of a greate trouble, and many errors and mistakeinges prevented, all places provided with principall heades, your aucthoritie kept in reputation and the whole estate to be euerie yeare sett and sent vs in Ballance and thereby the gaine & losse which euerie place yeildeth will presentlie bee found out, and so accordinglie remeadie provided for the same.

Neither doo wee thinck itt fitt, that the Directors should bee bound to keepe their residence in one place, but to bee in their power to visit their factories vnder them, from place to place to prevent allvise Anshall come vnto you wee wspectes according to their estate, and ha places and voices amongst your Counsell.

Moreouer we hould it convenient that euerie Direct haue 4. or 5. of the best experienced to ymploy in the ffactories. that are vnder his Commaund and each Factorie to haue 3. or 4. Newe Comers, one to learne the Languadge which in tyme wilbee verie available vnto our affaires, and by degrees in case of mortallitie, or otherwise may rise in succession ac- cording as they may seeme to deserve. And for further Light vnto the Trade of all those partes wee haue thought fitt to annex herevnto such discriptions and intelligences as wee haue receau- ed and gathered out of such advises as wee haue had from our ffactors whereof you may make such vse, as you find most convenient.

The Discription of Zeilan. Zeilan in it self is a rich Iland and hath the best Cinamon of all the Indies, it hath also some Rubies, Spinels, Cattes eyes the best and finest of all the worlde, onlie they are not found in any quantitie, and such as are found come for the most parte into the bandes of the