directions under written very exactlij that wee maij Receive noe damaighe for want of your care, and if you please to draw a bill a pone us wee shall make good paijment, and According to your kind usaighe we shall be obliged to give you further order the number of the two sheett of drinking glasses Amounts to 500 dozen which we hope will be packt up in five large chests, if not put the rest in a halfe chest and if anij are wanting fill it upp with glasses of the same patterns but lett the enamld glasses bee putt into a box by them selves with a few bundles or Masts of pearle neck laces according to order, this is all at pr'sent from your ffrinds & servants Michall Meseij Directions 1st that the drinking glasses be made of verij cleer whit sound mettall and exact according to the patterns both for size fashion and number and of noe other sorts or fashions. 2nd that the Chests bee full size well hooped & naijld and the Marke in the Margent put apone them as well as one the Lid as one the end to prevent the 3rd that you send Agen dwall factorij and also 3 The Contents of the Lookeing Glasses &c. I dozen of speckled enameld coverd beere glasses I dozen Clouded calsedonia coverd beere glasses 2 dozen enameld Coverd Clarett glasses I dozen Clouded Calsedonia Covered clarett glasses 2 dozen enameld Covered sack glasses I dozen Calsedonia Sack glasses 4 dozen speckled enameld Clarett glasses : 2 dozen Clouded Calsedonia Clarett glasses 4 dozen speckled enameld Sack glasses 20: beere 500 in ye sheet of patterns, Tottall 520 I have not draune pattern for these. But Lett them all be made with feet and ears of good hansom fashions and packt bij them selves in a small box or case markt as in ye Margent, Senier Alleisio Morellj. London, September 17, 1669. Sr-Our Respects presented unto you, we have heer Jnclosed sent you our patterns for a parcell of drinking Glasses and a few false pearle neck laces, which we desire you maij bee sent us with all convenient speed apone the first good free ship that presents, and that speciall care bee taken in the provijding them according to our directions under written and to the well packing them up, for the last wee Recevied from you out of the John & Thomas and Affrican manij of the Chests weare verij Ill Conditioned for their was above forety dozen broken and some of the chests had Taken watter which does staijne and rott the Glasses, and wee could not see how theij could take wett after theij wear shipt for both the ships wear in a verij good Condition soe that we supose your servants lett the chests stand out in the raigne after theij wear packt, and therefore we hope you will freelij make us some sattisfaction for the damaige we Recevied therbij, and order more care to be taken for the futer (and therfore Sr we desire you EEL FLINT (FIRST), -ROLLING ON MALVER, exactlij to observe our directions under written in all respects) that we maij have noe cause to Complaine. Their is of all sortts 600: dozen of drinking glasses but if you cannot procure the whole parcell redij to send by the first good free ship, then send us 2 or 3 chests of what you can get redij and lett the plaine glasses (as in the Margent) be first made in a redijness for them wee want most espesallj, and also we desire now that noe Lookeing Glasses be packt in the bottoms of the chests of drinking Glasses, but wee woud have them verij carefuly packt in one or two strong Cases as you shall see most Convenient for securitj from danger of Breakidge with the box of false pearle neck Laces with them, and Sr further wee desire you to send us Two facterijs, and in one of them to nominate and prize those 18: glasses of silke and those 24 glasses of 14 or 14 Inches English Measure and those 18: glasses of all as 60: n°/36: and nominate and prize the 18: no/36 as 18: n° 28 (for other waijs wee must paij 2 shillings 6 pence a peece duties for everij size above the n°/Thirty sizes. which if wee shoud theij woud be deerer to us than wee can buij heer) and alsoe to enter shortt of the true number of everij chest of drinking Glasses ten dozen for the Custome is also verij high apone them, and praij S' Lett us heere from you when you have Recevied these lines as alsoe when you shall have shiped all or anij of them, and then you maij please to draw your bill or bills Apone us (as formerlij) and wee shall make good and punktuali paijment there oft, Thus not dowting of your uttermost care and kinde useaighe we take our Leaves and rest your ffrinds servants. 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Sr Wee praij you most Carefully to observe these directions under written. 1st That all the drinking Glasses be well made of verij bright cleer & whit sound Mettal and as exactlij as possible may bee to the formes for fashion size and Number and that noe other fashions or Sortts be sent us but this one patterns onlij. 2o That the Chests be strong Large whole Chests, well hoopd and naijld and Markt and Numberd as in the Margent at one end of everij chest and also apone the Covers or Lids, to prevent the seamen from setting the Lid or upper part of the Chest undermost and to be sure theij be all verij well and Carefullij packt up and with thorou drij weeds, for if the weeds be not well drijed or doe tak anij wett after theij be packt theij staijne and spoijle the glasses. 3dj That the Lookeing glasses bee all verij good Cleer whit Mettle and Cleere and free from bladders or great sands or anij other blemishes or faults whatsoever and that theij bee verij Large sized for the sortts, for maij of your last yt you sent us wear verij small size espesallj yor Nox No 17: N° 28: N°/36 & of 2. 4th That the Neck Laces be of a verij Good Couller and Longer than the last weare. 5 Remember to send 2 facterijs. Wee desire you to send us these sortts and numbers of Lookeing Glasses under written all of them unfoijld or unsilverd & doe not mention ye number apone ye Lids. FLINT (SECOND). |