RUSSIA COMPANY'S ARTICLES a.d. 



1555- 

 no debts, but to take ware for ware in hand, and rather 

 be trusted then to trust. Note diligently what be the Note. 

 best wares for those parts, and howe the fishe falleth on 

 the coast, and by what meane it is to bee bought at the 

 most advantage, what kindes and diversities of sortes in 

 fishes be, and whether it will keepe better in bulke piled, 

 or in caske. 



19 Item, he to have a diligent eye & circumspection to 

 the beere, salt, and other liquid wares, and not to suffer 

 any waste to be made by the companie, and he in all 

 contracts to require advise, counsel, and consent of the 

 master and pilot, the marchant to be our houswife, as our 

 speciall trust is in him, he to tender that no lawes nor 

 customes of the countrey be broken by any of the com- 

 pany, and to render to the prince, and other officers, all 

 that which to them doth appertaine, the company to be 

 quiet, voide of all quarrelling, fighting, or vexation, 

 absteine from all excesse of drinking as much as may bee, 

 and in all to use and behave themselves as to quiet 

 marchants doeth, and ought to apperteine. 



20 Item, it is decreed by the companie, that the 

 Edward shall returne home this yeere with as much wares 

 as may be conveniently & profitably provided, bought, and 

 laden in Russia, and the rest to be taken in at the Ward- 

 house, as by the Agents shall be accorded. But by all 

 meanes it is to be foreseene and noted, that the Edward 

 returne home, and not to winter in any forrein place, but 

 to come home, and bring with her all the whole advertise- 

 ments of the marchants, with such further advise for the 

 next yeeres provision, as they shall give. 



21 Item, it is further decreed and ordeined, inviolably 

 to be observed, that when the good ships, or either of 

 them (by Gods grace) shall returne home to the coastes 

 of England, that neither of them shall stay or touch in 

 any Haven or Port of England, otherwise then wind and 

 weather shall serve, but shall directly saile and come to 

 the Port of the citie of London, the place of their right 

 discharge, and that no bulke be broken, hatches opened, 



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