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Histoire Générale de la Chine : vol.3 |
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hovse or else wheare, or in Kent in Gillingham, by Ro-
chester ».
» Probably through the agency of their Factors recently
settled at Bantam, two copies of the letter were transmit-
ted to the « Worshipfull Felowship of the Merchants of
London trading into the East Indies »; and in the sequel it
will be perceived the communication led to the opening
of commercial intercourse between England and Japon 1. »
Cette première lettre débute :
« Hauing so good occasion, by hearing that certaine
English marchants lye in the island of Iaua, although by
name vnknowen, I have ymboldened my selfe to wryte
these few lines, desiring the Worshipfull Companie being
unknowen to me, to pardon my stowtness. My reason that
I doe wryte, is first as conscience doth binde me with loue
to my countrymen, and country. Your Worships, to whom
this present wryting shall come, is to geve you to vnder-
stand that I am a Kentish man, borne in a towne called
Gillingam, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from
Chattam, where the Kings ships doe lye : and that from
the age of twelue yeares olde, I was brought vp in Lime-
house neere London, being Apprentice twelue yeares to
Master Nicholas Diggines; and my selfe haue serued for
Master and Pilott in her Maiesties ships; and about eleuen
or twelue yeares haue serued the Worshipfull Companie of
the Barbarie Marchants, vntill the Indish traffick from
Holland [began], in which Indish traffick I was desirous
to make a littel experience of the small knowledg which
God had geven me. So, in the yeare of our Lord 1598, I was
hired for Pilot Maior of a fleete of five sayle, which was
made readie by the Indish Companie : Peeter Vander Hay
and Hance Vander Veek. The Generall of this fleet, was a
marchant called Iaques Maihore, in which ship, being
Admirall, I was Pillott 2. »
. . . « Therefore I do pray and intreate you in the name
of Jesus-Christ to doe so much as to make my being here
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