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Instructions for C Blackett Newc[astle] June 28th 1680
Make wt hast hast you can to Stockholme, wn please God you arrive there & the salt to mr Jno Strother upon mr Robt Wetwangs acc[oun]t for the freight of wch stand stiffely att <S>28 p Last <fn> 20 last, If mr Jno Strother seeme to thinke itt too much doe you abate him wt you thinke convenient, after <unloaden> tell Jno Strother itt is my desire either to have you to have a freight for London or to be loaden <backe> wth <tarr> for tht I have noe great desire to have any more Iron for tht I have allready more thn I can sell for any profitt and doe you likewise endeavour for to gett a freight for London, wch I hope you will easily gett Effected, if not I hope Jno Strother will loade you of wth tare but if noe tarr to be procured neither, home unloaden you shall not come, <hee> must have patience and loade Iron accordingly as I writt Mr Strother, and be you continually putting him on to lett me have the best <strucke> the best mettle, and the finest Iron tht can be gotte –
you may be telling him alsoe tht itt is my great desire to have all my goods in his hands sold, and to give you one Clear acct, and wt is due to him he knowes how to be reimbursed, and tht I Expect itt shall be p[er]formed, and not a farthing more charged thn is due, and tht you <dare> as well be hanged as come home unless itt be done accordingly, make wt dispatch you can both there and backe againe, soe I wish you a prosperous voyage & remaines
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Michael did have a younger brother Christopher who had been admitted to the Merchant Adventurers Company in 1677-8 and authorised to join the Eastland Company at the same time but he died in 1678. A later letter 30 Oct 1680) makes clear that Christopher was master of Michael Blackett’s ship, the Resistance, so he was perhaps a more distant relation
