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Before you goe out of the Realme, that you learne:
1 TO know wooll, all kind of clothes made in this realme, and all other employments of wooll, home or forren, be ye same in Felt clokes, felt hats, in the red knit cap for Barbarie, called Bonettos rugios colorados, or whatsoeuer, &c.
All the deceits in Clothmaking; as the sorting together of Wools of seuerall natures, some of nature to shrinke, some to hold out, which causeth clothed to cockle and lie vneuen.
The euill sorting of threed of good or bad wooll, some tootoo hard spun, some tootoo soft spun deliuered to be wouen.
The faults in Weauing.
The faults in Walking, Rowing, and Burling, and in Racking the Clothes aboue measure vpon the Teintors: all which faults may be learned of honest men, which faults are to be know∣en to the merchant, to be shunned and not to be vsed.
2 Then to learne of the Diers to discerne all kind of colours; as which be good and sure, and which will not hold: which be faire, which not; which colours by the dearth of the substances bee deare, and which by reason of the cheapenesse of the Materials with which they be died, be cheape colours.
3 Then to take the names of all the materials and substaunces vsed in this Citie or in the realme, in dying of cloth or silke.
To learne to know them, as which be good, which bad.
And what colours they die.
And what prices they be of.
And of them which bee the Naturals of this Realme, and in what part of the Realme they are to be had.
And of all the forren materials vsed in dying to know the very naturall places of them, and the plentie or the starcenesse of each of them.
These things superficially learned in the realme before you goe, you are the sitter in forren parts to serue your Countrey, for by this meanes you haue an enterie into the thing that I wish you to trauell in.