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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HEYDON. 365
stay abroad till the new mission. These ships
were not
otherwise fraught than with store of victualls, and treasure
to remaine with the Brethren for buying such things and
rewarding such persons as they
should think fit. Now for
me to tell you how the vulgar sort of marriners are con-
tained from being discovered at land, and how they that
must be put on shore colour themselves under the name of
other nations, and to what places these voyages have been
designed, and what rendezvous are appointed
for the new
missions, and the like circumstances, I may not do it, but
thus, you see, we maintain a trade, not for gold, silver, or
jewels, nor any commodity of matter, but onely for God's
first creature, which was light, to have light, I say, of the
growth of all parts of the world."
When he had said this he was silent, and so were we all,
for we were astonished to hear so strange things so probably
told. He perceiving that we were willing to say some-
what, but had it not ready, descended to aske us questions
of our voyage and fortunes, and in the end concluded that
we mought do well to think what time of stay we would
demand of the State, for he would procure such time as we
desired. Whereupon we all rose up and presented our-
selves to kisse the skirt of his tippet, but he would not
suffer us, and so took his leave. When it came once
amongst our people
that the State used to offer conditions
to strangers that would stay, we had worke enough to get
any of our men to look to our ship, and to keep them from
going to the Government to crave conditions.
We took ourselves now for freemen, and lived most joy-
what was to be seen in the
fully, going abroad and seeing
city and places adjacent, obtaining acquaintance with many
in the city, at whose hands we found such humanity as