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The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
JANUARY 6TH, 1577. FROM DR. BURCOTT OF HIS PROCEEDYNGE IN THE TRIALL OF THE OWRE
My humble commendacions Sir Walsingame I gyve you most hartie thankes for your laboure and delygence for the performinge of your promysse and the sendinge of 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 I have mayd a hundred dyvers sayes of sondry owers out of 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 of 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.
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