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Mr J Kelley Rotterdm 20 Novmbr 1708 Sr this day I am favoured wth yrs of the 1 9ber your Stile, by wch I perceive you found the Acct of Bulmans Coales without Error & noted accordingly. I will do my endeavoir to Send you per this Convoy wch only waites for a fair wind, the Candle week you write for, but for the Shaving pleet will be impossible to get unless one was certain the fleet would Stay 5 or 6 days longer pleet is made only in one place in Holland, before one can write thier & have it come per boate hit[h]er very likely the Ships may be gone, Coales a perfect drug when they begin to Sell will bring the price down to 171/2gl, the price & charges of tobacco you have below Rape Seed is high in price one could make at present if very good 40gl a last the best comes from hull, the charges are as I am told wth Commission <is> about 15gl a Last, if you think any thing is to be had will willingly take a Share wth you, but than must come by the next Convoy in any other Sort of Seed no proffit Muder Onberoofde 171/2 a 20gl Tobacco best 9:10: Craps from 24:26 a 28gl common Sort 5 1/2 or 6 Flax from 24 1/2 to 26 1/2gl worst - 4 or 4 1/2 Twine 2 or 3 <td> f19 100/<ll> 1 <Stl> a <pondy> charges Canvas 23 ¾gl a Bolt
