ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1555. 



shalbe taken up for credite, and the said Agents to be 

 relieved ab opere satis dandi. 



3 Item full authoritie and power is committed to the 

 said first named factors, together with Richard Chancelor 

 grand Pilot of this fleete, to repaire to the Emperors 

 court, there to present the king and Queenes Majesties 

 letters, written in Greeke, Polish, and Italian, and to give 

 and exhibite the marchants presents at such time and 

 place as shalbe thought most expedient, they, or one of 

 them to demand, and humbly desire of ye Emperour 

 such further grants and priviledges to be made to this 

 companie, as may be beneficiall for the same, to continue 

 in traffike with his subjects, according to such instructions 

 as bee in this behalfe devised and delivered to the Agents 

 whereunto relation is to be had, and some one of these 

 persons to attend upon the court for the obtaining of the 

 same, as to their discretions shalbe thought good. 



4 Item, that all the saide Agents doe well consider, 

 ponder and weigh such articles as bee delivered to them 

 to know the natures, dispositions, lawes, customes, maners 

 and behaviours of the people of the countreis where they 

 shal traffike, as well of the Nobilitie as of the Lawyers, 

 Marchants, Mariners and common people, and to note 

 diligently the subtilties of their bargaining, buying and 

 selling, making as fewe debtes as possiblie may bee, and to 

 bee circumspect, that no lawe neither of religion nor 

 positive bee broken or transgressed by them or any 

 minister under them, ne yet by any mariner or other 

 person of our nation, and to foresee that all tolles, 

 customes, and such other rites be so duely paid, that no 

 forfeiture or confiscation may ensue to our goods either 

 outward or inward, and that al things passe with quiet, 

 without breach of the publike peace or common tran- 

 quillitie of any of the places where they shall arrive or 

 traffique. 



5 Item, that provision bee made in Mosco or elswhere, 

 in one or mo good townes, where good trade shall be 

 found for a house or houses for the Agents, and com- 



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