ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1556. 



first, all such packes, or trusses, &c. as shal be brought 

 aboord to be laden, not marked by the companies 

 marke, you shall doe the best to let that the same be 

 not laden, and to enquire diligently to know the 

 owners thereof, if you can, and what commoditie the 

 same is, that is so brought aboord to be laden : if you 

 can not know the owners of such goods, learne what 

 you can thereof, as well making a note in your booke, 

 as also to send or bring word thereof to the Agent, 

 and to some one of the foure Marchants with him 

 adjoined so speedily as you can, if it be here laden or 

 to be laden in this river, being not marked with the 

 companies marke, as is aforesaid : and when the sayd 

 shippe hath received in all that the companies Agent 

 will have laden, you shal make a just copie of that 

 which is laden, reciting the parcels, the markes and 

 numbers of every thing plainely, which you shall 

 likewise deliver to the sayd bookekeeper to the use 

 aforesayd. 



3 Also when the ship is ready to depart, you shall 

 come for your cockets and letters to the Agent, and 

 shall shew him all such letters as you have received of 

 any person or persons privately or openly, to be delivered 

 to any person or persons in Russia or elsewhere, and 

 also to declare if you know any other that shall passe 

 in the ship either master or mariner that hath received 

 any letters to be privily delivered to any there, directed 

 from any person or persons, other then from the Agent 

 here to the Agent there : which letters so by you 

 received, you shall not carie with you, without you be 

 licenced so to doe by the Agent here, and some of the 

 foure merchants, as is aforesayd : and such others as do 

 passe, having received any privie letters to be delivered, 

 you shal all that in you lieth, let the deliverie of them 

 at your arriving in Russia : and also if you have or 

 do receive, or shal know any other that doth or hath 

 received any goods or ready money to be imployed in 

 Russia, or to bee delivered there to any person or 



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