RUSSIA COMPANY'S ARTICLES 



Given under our seale at our Palace of Westminster, the 

 first of April, in the yere from the blessed incarnation of 

 our Saviour Jesus Christ, 1555. and in the first and 

 second yeeres of our reignes. 



Articles conceived and determined for the Com- 

 mission of the Merchants of this company 

 resiant in Russia, and at the Warhouse, for 

 the second voyage, 1555. the first of May, as 

 folio weth. 



A.D. 



1555- 



Irst, the Governour, Consuls, Assistants 

 and whole company assembled this day in 

 open court, committeth and authorizeth 

 Richard Gray and George Killingworth, 

 jointly and severally to be Agents, Factors, 

 and Atturneis generall and speciall, for the 

 whole body of this companie, to buy, sel, 

 trucke, change and permute al, and every kind and 

 kindes of wares, marchandizes and goods to the said 

 company appertaining, now laden & shipped in the good 

 ship called the Edward Bonaventure, appointed for Russia, 

 the same to utter and sell to the best commoditie, profit 

 and advantage of the said corporation, be it for ready 

 money, wares & marchandises, or truck, presently, or for 

 time, as occasion & benefit of the company shal require : 

 and all such wares as they or either of them shal buy, 

 trucke, or provide, or cause to be bought for the company 

 to lade them homeward in good order and condition, as 

 by prudent course of marchandises, shall, and ought to 

 appertaine, which article extendeth also to John Brooke 

 for the Wardhouse, as in the 17. and 18. articles of this 

 commission appeareth. 



1 Item, it is also committed, as above, to the said 

 Agents, to binde & charge the said company by debt for 

 wares upon credit, as good opportunitie and occasion shal 

 serve, with power to charge and bind the said company, 

 and their successors, for the paiments of such things as 



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