CAPE-MERCHANT IN THE ENGLISH FACTORY IN JAPAN 1615-1622 WITH CORRESPONDENCE EDITED BY EDWARD MAUNDE THOMPSON VOL. I BURT FRANKLIN, PUBLISHER NEW YORK, NEW YORK Published by BURT FRANKLIN 514 West 113th Street New York 25, N. Y. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY REPRINTED BY PERMISSION PRINTED IN THE U.S.A....

The history of the English trading settlement in Japan in the first quarter of the seventeenth century is the history of a failure; and the causes of the failure are not far to seek. Choosing for their depôt an insignificant island in the extreme west of the kingdom, without even good anchorage to recommend it, and at a far distance from the capital cities of Miako and Yedo, with the Dutch for their neighbours and, as it proved, their rivals, the English may be said to have courted disaster. It

June 1. —We bought 5 greate square postes of the kinges master carpenter; cost 2 mas 6 condrins [47] per peece. And I delivered unto Nicholas Martyn one small bar gould, cost eight riall of eight [48] 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 fiftie and five taies as yt cost; and is to send to Gapt. Whowe, the Capt. Chinas [49] brother, at Langasaque; [50] to geve in a present at

FIRST SERIES. NO. LXVII-MDCCCXXXIII DIARY OF RICHARD COCKS CAPE-MERCHANT IN THE ENGLISH FACTORY IN JAPAN 1615-1622 WITH CORRESPONDENCE EDITED BY EDWARD MAUNDE THOMPSON VOL. II BURT FRANKLIN, PUBLISHER NEW YORK, NEW YORK Published by BURT FRANKLIN 514 West 113th Street New York 25, N. Y. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY REPRINTED BY PERMISSION PRINTED IN THE U.S.A....

January 1. —I delivered these bills to Mr. Osterwick this day, viz.: — And I gave hym my writing for my boy Tushma, called Bicho, bought of Jno. Japon. We had much adoe with the mareners of our junk about carrying passingers along with them, and som of the officers of junk came ashore, but I sent them back per kinges order. And about midnight I went abord the junck to Cochy my selfe, and carid 20 loves bread, a veneson pastie, a peece rosting beefe, and a bottell Spanish wyne; and in the way met

Richard Cocks to the E. I. Company. [150] Right worshipfull,— * * * * * The 12th of June we came to an ancor in the haven of Firando, in Japan, where the kinge of the place receaved us very kyndlie; Mr. Adams not being theare, but had heard of our coming per meanes of a letter sent from Sr. Thomas Smith, which caused hym to leave order with his host to send a post to hym at our coming, which he did, and our Generall wrot hym 3 severall letters, yet he arived not at Firando till the 29th of July.