ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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chest, fardell, trusse, barrel, fat, or whatsoever thing it 

 shall be, be brought out of the shippe, untill the com- 

 panie shall give order for the same, and appoint such 

 persons of the companie as shall be thought meet for 

 that purpose, to take viewe, and consider the shippe and 

 her lading, and shall give order for the breaking up of 

 the saide bulke, or give licence by discretion, for things 

 to be brought to land. And that every officer shall 

 shewe the invoise of his charge to him first committed, 



[I. 262. j and to examine the wastes and losses, and to deliver the 

 remainder to the use and benefit of the company, 

 according to such order as shall be appointed in that 

 behalfe. 



22 Item, the company exhorteth, willeth, and requireth, 

 not onely all the said Agents, pilots, masters, marchants, 

 clerkes, boatswaines, stewards, skafemasters, and all other 



Note. officers and ministers of this present voyage, being put 

 in charge and trust dayly to peruse, reade, and studie 

 such instructions as be made, given, & delivered to them 

 for perfect knowledge of the people of Russia, Moscovia, 

 Wardhouse, and other places, their dispositions, maners, 

 customes, uses, tolles, cariages, coines, weights, numbers, 

 measures, wares, merchandises, commodities, and incom- 

 modities, the one to be accepted and imbraced, the other 

 to be rejected and utterly abandoned, to the intent that 

 every man taking charge, may be so well taught, perfited, 

 and readily instructed in all the premisses, that by 

 ignorance, no losse or prejudice may grow or chance to 

 the company : assuring themselves, that forasmuch as 

 the company hath travelled and laboured so in these their 

 instructions to them given, that every man may bee 

 perfect, and fully learned to eschew all losses, hurts and 

 damages that may insue by pretense or colour of none 

 knowledge, the company entendeth not to allow, or 

 accept ignorance for any lawfull or just cause of excuse, 

 in that which shall be misordered by negligence, the 

 burden whereof shall light upon the negligent offending 

 person, especially upon such as of their owne heads, or 



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