A note of requestable Commodities vendible in Iapan, together with their prices there Current, being Masses, and Canderines, each Can∣derine contayning the 1/1••▪ of a Masse: viz.
BRoad-clothes of all sorts, viz. Blackes, Yellowes and Reds, which cost in Holland eight or nine Gilders the Flemmish ell, two ells three quarters is worth three, foure too fiue hundred. Note that cloth of a high Wooll is not requestable, but such as is low shorne most vendible. [ 10] Fine Bayes of the colours afore-said vendible: not according as the Portugalls were, but well cottoned.
Sayes. Rashes. Bouratts single. Bouratts double: Silke Grogarams. Turkey Grogarams. Chamlets. Diuo Gekepert. Weersctynen. Caniant. Gewart Twijne. Veluets. Muske sold in weight against Siluer. India cloth of sorts requested. Sattins. Taffataes. Damaskes. Holland-cloth from fifteene to twentie Stiuers the Flemmish ell, and not aboue. Diaper. Damaske the better it is wrought with figures or branches. Threed of all colours. Carpets for Tables. Gil∣ded Leather painted, with Pictures and Flowres, the smallest worke best. Painted Pictures, they delight in lasciuious Stories of Warres by Sea and Land, the larger the better worth, one, [ 20] two, to three hundred. Quick-siluer the hundred Cattees, from three to foure hundred.
Vermillion, the hundred Cattees, worth from three to sixe hundred. Painting for Womens faces, the hundred Cattees twentie eight. Copper in Plates, one hundred twentie fiue. Flem∣mish weight worth from ninetie to an hundred. Lead in small Barres, the hundred Cattees worth from sixtie to eightie eight. Lead in sheetes best requested, the thinner the better, one hundred pounds Flemmish, to eightie. Tinne in logs fine, one hundred and twentie pound, Flem∣mish three hundred and fiftie. Iron, twentie fiue Ounces Holland, worth foure. Steele the hun∣dred Cattees, worth from one to two hundred.
Tapistrie. Ciuet the Cattee, worth from one hundred and fiftie to two hundred. China roots the hundred Cattees or Peecull worth fortie. China sowing Gold the Paper, three masse, three Powder Sugar of China, the hundred Cattees or Peecull worth fortie to fiftie. Sugar Candie the [ 30] Peecul, or one hundred Cattees, worth from fifty to sixty. Veluets of all colors, eight els the piece, worth from one hundred & twenty, to one hundred and thirtie. Wrought Veluets like fabricke, worth from one hundred & eighty to two hundred. Taffataes all colours, & good Silke worth the piece, from foure and twentie, thirtie, to fortie. Sattin of seuen or eight ells long, the piece worth from eightie to one hundred. Figured Sattin, worth from one hundred and twentie to one hundred and fiftie. Gazen of seuen pikes or ells, worth from fortie to fiftie. Raw Silke the Cat∣tee, of twelue pound Flemmish, worth from thirtie to fortie. Vntwisted Silke of eight and twentie pound Flemmish, worth from thirtie fiue to fortie. Twisted Silke, worth from eight and twentie to fortie. [ 40]
Drinking Glasses of all sorts. Bottles, Cans and Cups, Trenchers, Platters, Beere Glasses, Salts, Wine Glasses, Bekers gilt, Locking-glasses of the largest sort, Muscouie Glasse, much Salt, Writing Table-bookes, Paper-bookes, Lead to neale Pots, Spanish Sope well requested, it is sold for one masse the small Cacke. Amber in beades, worth one hundred and fortie, to one hundred and six∣tie. Silke stockings of all colours. Spanish Leather, Neates Leather, with other sorts of Leather vsed for Gloues, worth from sixe, eight, to nine. Candiques of China, worth from fifteene to twentie. Candiques of the same place blacke, the former being blew, from ten to fifteene. Wax for Candles one hundred pounds Flemmish, worth from two hundred, to two hundred and fiftie. Hony the Peecull, worth sixtie. Samell of Cochinchina, the Peecull, one hundred and eightie. Pepper the Peecull, if there come not much, worth one hundred. Nutmegs the Peecull, twentie fiue, Campheir of Barous or Borneo, the pound hollaus, from two hundred and fiftie to foure [ 50] hundred. Sanders of Solier the Peecull, worth one hundred. Callomback wood good and weigh∣tie, the pound worth from one, two, three to fiue. Sapon, or red wood the Peecull, from twen∣tie to twentie sixe. Elephants teeth the greater, the better worth from foure, fiue, sixe, seuen, to eight hundred. Renosceros horne, the Iauan Cattee worth thirtie. Harts hornes gilded the piece, three, foure, or fiue hundred. Roch Allome esteemed good ware, and enquired after: that which cost but three Gilders, hath beene sold for one hundred Gilders, but not euery mans money.
Note, that the Chineses will commonly trucke for your Siluer, and giue you Gold of twentie three Carrackes: from fifteene to twentie the Ounce Siluer, but some times there commeth much, and other some times little. [ 60]