ABSTRACT
The rich boots and shoes are covered with coloured silk; and there be boots from ten crowns to one crown price, and shoes of two crowns and thence downward, and in some places are shoes of three pence. The principal streets of the merchants are the most principal streets; notwithstanding the chiefest sale of the porcelain is at the gates of the cities; and every merchant hath at his door written on a board all that is sold within his shop. As the goods of China are very great and many, so the revenues which the King of China hath in every part of his kingdom are very great. Some China merchants did affirm that Cantam did yield every year to the King three thousand piculs of silver. The merchants are commonly false and liars, and labour as much as they can to have hidden defects in their wares, with which they deceive the buyers.
