RUSSIA COMPANY'S CHARTER ad. 



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shall and may by vertue of these presents, mulct, and 

 punish every such offender or offenders, as the quality of 

 the offence requireth, according to their good discretions. 



And further, we will that none of the saide offender or 

 offenders shall decline from the power of the saide 

 Governour, or governours, Consuls and assistants, in 

 maner, forme, and number abovesaide for the time being : 

 so alwayes, that the saide actes, statutes and ordinances, 

 doe onely touch and concerne the saide Governour or 

 governours, Consuls, assistants, and the saide fellowship 

 and communaltie of our before named Marchants adven- 

 turers, or the men of the same fellowship and com- 

 munaltie, and none other ; And so alwayes, that such 

 their acts, statutes and ordinances bee not against our 

 prerogative, lawes, statutes, and customes of our realmes 

 and Dominions, nor contrary to the severall duetie of any 

 our subjects towards us, our heires and successours, nor 

 contrarie to any compacts, treaties or leagues, by us or 

 any our progenitours heretofore had or made, or hereafter 

 by us, our heires and successours to bee made, to or with 

 any forreine Prince or potentate, nor also to the prejudice 

 of the corporation of the Maior, communalties and 

 Citizens of our Citie of London, nor to the prejudice of 

 any person or persons, bodie politique, or corporate, or 

 incorporate, justly pretending, clayming, or having any 

 liberties, franchises, priviledges, rightes or preheminences, 

 by vertue or pretext of anie graunt, gift, or Letters 

 patents, by us, or anie our Progenitours, heeretofore 

 given, graunted, or made. 



Moreover, we for us, our heires, and successours, will, 

 and by these presents, doe graunt unto the said Gover- 

 nors, Consuls, assistants, fellowship and communaltie of 

 our Marchants aforesaid, that their said Governour or 

 governours, Consuls and assistants, and their successors 

 for the time being, in maner, forme and number above 

 rehearsed, shal have full power and authority to assigne, 

 constitute and ordaine one officer, or divers officers as 

 well within our aforesaide Citie of London, as also in any 



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