ABSTRACT
STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TRIAL OF THE ORE
SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE.
[Colonial 77. Domestic Eliz. cxxii. No. 3.]
My humble commendacions Sir Walsingame I gyve you most hartie thankes for your laboure and delygence for the performinge o f your promysse and the sendinge o f my pattane and, I hope by Godes grace to performe my promysse towardes you I had or this sertefied your Honore the trewe matter off this ower and my proves butt God hathe towched me so hard wth the gowte that I have kept my bed this thre wekes and do yett, and I sertefie your Honore off a trothe that 1 have mayd a hundred dyvers sayes o f sondry owers out o f that lande, and I fynde not such goodnes in yt as I thought to have founde not prosedinge half an ounce, as the blacke ower ys and I have prepared and rosted accordinge as I promyssed you, and I cane bringe yt to no clay but I have moltine doune a pounde, and hathe founde in yt fouer graynes as by this prove I have sent you dothe appere that will come in a houndred weight almoste thre quarters o f an ounce that is nere xiiii ounces in a tonne and I dout not when yt is right prepared yt will faule out in the great fyere very well and I am mynded as sone as I am able wth my bodye I will melte doune a hundred weight and send you that prove accordinglye. So I byd you fare well wth my humble disier to advertyse the Quene’s Heignes and my Lord of Lasyter. Datum the vi o f January.
