LETTER TO THE AGENTS a.d. 



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 as also what wares are remaining in your hands : which 



together well considered, you may advertise us as well 



for how many hundreth tonnes we must provide fraight 



against the next yeere, as also what sortes, quantities 



and qualities of wares we shall send you, as well to 



pay your credite, as also to furnish the next adventure 



after. Of this we would be answered largely. For we 



trust by this time you are able to give full instructions 



of the state of the countrey : according to the articles The articles 



of your first Commissions, and what commodities doe °j thetr fi rst 



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principally abound there with their prices : and likewise g - n , en l ,. - , 



what of our commodities have most utterance there, 



and what prices will be given for them there : and all 



other things requisite and necessary to be knowen. 



Also we doe understand that in the Countrey of 



Permia or about the river of Pechora is great quantitie 



of Yewe, and likewise in the Countrey of Ugory, which 



we be desirous to have knowledge of, because it is a 



speciall commoditie for our Realme. Therefore wee 



have sent you a yong man, whose name is Leonard Leonard 



Brian, that hath some knowledge in the wood, to shew Brtan sent t0 



. , . , ° t , n search out 



you in what sorte it must be cut and cloven, bo our y ewe - in t h e 



minde is if there be any store, and that it bee found t: orth parts of 



to be good, that there you doe provide a good quantitie Russia. 



against the next yeere for the comming of our shippes : 



and if there can bee found none that will serve for our 



purpose, then you may set the sayd Leonard Brian to 



any other businesse that you shall finde most fittest 



for him, untill the returne of our ships the next yeere. 



For he is hired by the yeere onely for that purpose. 



We doubt not but that hee shall doe you good service 



there. For hee hath good knowledge of wares of that 



Countrey : for his bringing up hath bene most in 



Danske, and hath good understanding in making of 



Ropes and Cables. Also we doe send you two Coopers 2. Coopers 



to remaine there with you at our finding for meate s * nt int0 



and drinke and lodging to make in a readinesse all 



such caske as shalbe needfull for traine oyle, tallowe, 



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