RUSSIA COMPANY'S CHARTER ad. 



1555- 



seazed, shall according to the tenor and purport of the 



sayd precept, returne, and deliver unto the sayd officer or 

 officers of the aforesaid fellowship, and communakie. 



And further, we will and grant for us, our heires and 

 successours by these presents, that all, and every such 

 Maior, shirife, baylife, or other head officers or ministers 

 of any citie, borough, towne incorporate, or other places 

 franchised, shall not be impeached, molested, vexed or 

 sued in any our court or courts, for executing or putting 

 in execution of any of the said precept or precepts. 



And furthermore, we of our ample and abundant grace, 

 meere motion, & certaine knowledge, for us, our heires, 

 and successors, as much as in us is, have given and 

 granted, and by these presents doe give and grant unto 

 the sayd governour, Consuls, assistants, fellowship, and 

 comminaltie of Marchants adventurers, and to their 

 successors, and to the Factor and Factors, assigne and 

 assignes of every of them, ful and free authoritie, libertie, 

 facultie and licence, and power to saile to all portes, 

 regions, dominions, territories, landes, Isles, Islands, and 

 coastes of the sea, wheresoever before their late adventure 

 or enterprise unknowen, or by our Marchants and 

 subjects by the seas not heretofore commonly frequented, K - Philip and 

 under our banner, standerd, flags and ensignes, with their 9 uee ? e j^ ary 

 shippe, ships, barke, pinnesses, and all other vessels of disanull Pope 

 whatsoever portage, bulke, quantitie or qualitie they may Alexanders 

 be, and with any Mariners, and men as they will leade ^'^n. 

 with them in such shippe or shippes, or other vessels at 

 their owne and proper costs and expences, for to traffique, 

 descrie, discover and finde, whatsoever Isle, Islands, 

 countreis, regions, provinces, creekes, armes of the sea, 

 rivers & streames, as wel of Gentiles, as of any other 

 Emperor, king, prince, governor or Lord whatsoever he 

 or they shalbe, and in whatsoever part of the world they 

 be situated, being before the sayd late adventure or 

 enterprise unknowen, and by our Marchants and subjects 

 not commonly frequented : and to enter and land in the 

 same, without any maner of denying, paine, penaltie or 



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