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RELATION III.

Other Voyages, Joumies, etts. occurringe1 since my arrival
from Constantinople untill the tyme of my
entertainement for East India, vizt.

March the 20th. 1620". I went downe to my Freinds
in the Countrie3, and the end of that Sommer4 I made
a voyage to Sevill5, in Spaine, with Pilchards (our Countrey
Comoditie)" for an Accompt of Mr. Richard Wyche7, my
Uncle, and Father8.

April 22th. 1622. After my returne from Spaine,
I covenanted with the said Mr. Richard Wyche to serve
him five yeares, on certaine Conditions.

1 See p. 7, where the title of this Relation, as given in the "First
Table," is practically the same as above. The B.M. copy, Hart. MS.
2286, has "Other Passages occurringe," etc., and, in the "Table" at
the beginning" of the MS. the B.M. copy has, "Post in Spain and
other passages," etc.

2 i.e. 1620/1.

3 i.e. to Pentyn in Cornwall. The B.M. copy, Hart. MS. 2286,
adds, "and returned to London again the 14th. April 1622."

4 In the year 1621.

5 Mundy had already spent two years in Seville (see p. 14).
For his allusion to the Giralda in that city, see p. 97.

c Compare Rawl. MS. C. 799, fol. 106 b, "Barcelona....The
Merchandize that is staple, and the quantity that will sell here is
Per annum looo Butts of Pilchards at about Royalls 50 for every
1000 Pilchards paying charges Royalls 12 per butt."

7 Richard Wyche was the brother of James Wyche, Mundy's
former master. See pp. 14, 23 and 136, and Appendix B.

8 This sentence is omitted in the B.M. copy, Hart. MS. 2286.
 
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