Thomas Allen, The City and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent: Volume 1 chapter 9 They exported sundry sorts of woollen-cloths, calf-skins, &c. and imported silks, camblets, and rhubarb; malmsey, muscadel, and other wines; oils, cotton-wool, Turkey carpets, galls, and India spices: yet, in those days, they were generally twelve months in those voyages, as were two ships going this year from London to Candia and Chios; which voyage was found so hazardous and, dangerous, that one of these ships was put into Blackwall dock, and never more went to sea. (2.33)