RUSSIA COMPANY'S ARTICLES a.d. 



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 temeritie, will take upon him or them to doe or to attempt 

 any thing, whereby prejudice may arise, without the com- 

 mission of the Agents as above is mentioned, whereunto 

 relation must be had. 



23 Forasmuch as it is not possible to write and indite 

 such prescribed orders, rules and commissions to the 

 Agents and factours, but that occasion, time and place, 

 and the pleasures of the princes, together with the opera- 

 tion or successe of fortune shall change or shift the same, 

 although not in the whole, yet in part, therefore the said 

 company doe commit to you their deare and intire 

 beloved Agents and factors to doe in this behalfe for the 

 commodity and wealth of this company, as by your dis- 

 cretions, upon good advised deliberations shalbe thought 

 good and beneficiall. Provided alwayes, that the honour, 

 good name, fame, credite, and estimation of the same 

 companie be conserved and preserved : which to confirme 

 we beseech the living Lord to his glory, the publike 

 benefite of this realme, our common profits, and your 

 praises. 



Finally for the service, and due accomplishment of all 

 the premisses, every Agent and minister of and for this 

 voyage, hath not onely given a corporall othe upon the 

 Evangelists to observe, and cause to be observed, this 

 commission, and every part, clause and sentence of the 

 same, as much as in him lyeth, as well for his owne part 

 as for any other person, but also have bounde themselves 

 and their friendes to the companie in severall summes of 

 money, expressed in the actes and records of this societie, 

 for the trueth and fidelities of them, for the better, and 

 also manifester testification of the trueth, and of their 

 othes, promises, and bands aforesaid, they have to this 

 Commission subscribed particularly their severall hands, 

 and the company also in confirmation of the same, have 

 set their seale. Yeven the day, moneth, and yeeres first 

 above mentioned. 



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