GEORGE KILLINGWORTH ad. 



1555- 



the right discharge of the ships, and yet I trust the 



ships shal come neerer hereafter, because the ships may 



not tary long for their lading, which is iooo. miles 



from Vologda by water, and all our marchants shall 



bring all our marchandize to Colmogro to you, and so Colmogro. 



shall our marchants neither go empty nor come empty: 



for if they lacke lading homeward, there is salt, which is 



good ware here, that they may come loden againe. So 



we were very glad to heare that, and did agree to his 



saying : for we shal neverthelesse, if we lust, have a 



house at Vologda, & at the Mosco, yea, & at Novo- 



grode, or where we wil in Rusland : But the three & 



twentieth of this present we were with the secretary, and 



then among other talke, we moved, that if we should 



tary at Colmogro with our wares, and should not come 



to Vologda, or further to seeke our market, but tary stil 



at Colmogro, and then the marchants of the Mosco 



and others should not come and bring their wares, and 



so the ships should come, and not have their lading 



ready, that then it were a great losse and hinderance 



for us : then saide hee againe to us, that the marchants 



had beene againe together with him, and had put the 



like doubt, that if they should come and bring their 



wares to Colmogro, and that they should not find wares 



there sufficient to serve them, that then they should be 



at great loss and hinderance, they leaving their other 



trades to fal to that : and to that we did answere, that 



after the time that we do appoint with them to bring 



their wares to Colmogro, God willing, they should never 



come thither, but at the beginning of the yere, they 



should find that our marchants would have at the least 



for a thousand robles, although the ships were not come : 



so that he saide, that then wee must talke further with 



the marchants : so that as yet I know not, but that we 



shall have neede of one house at Colmogro, and another 



at Vologda, and if that they bring not their wares to Col- Vologda. 



mogro, then wee shalbe sure to buy some at Vologda, 



and to be out of bondage. 



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