LETTER TO THE AGENTS ad. 



1560. 



seventh of this present, and intendeth to passe by the Passage to and 



way of Sweden, by whom I sent a letter to the worshipfull f rom Moscovia 



Companie, and have written that I intend to come downe by Sweden - 



unto Colmogro to be readie there at the next shipping to 



imbarke my selfe for England, declaring that my service 



shal not be needfull here, for that you are a man able 



to serve their worships in greater affaires then they 



have heere to doe, so farre as I perceive. As touching 



the Companies affaires heere, I referre you to Christopher 



Hudsons letters, for that I am but newly arrived. 



Having here but litle businesse to doe, I send you 



Richard Johnson to helpe you there in your affaires. 



Thus giving you most heartie thanks for my wench This was a 



Aura Soltana, I commend you to the tuition of God y on S Tartar 



who send you health with hearts desire. * girle whic L hhe 



J gave to the 



Your assured to command, Queene after- 

 Anthonie Jenkinson. 



A Letter of the Moscovie companie to their 

 Agents in Russia, Master Henrie Lane, 

 Christopher Hudson, and Thomas Glover sent 

 in their seventh voyage to Saint Nicholas with 

 three ships, the Swallowe, the Philip and 

 Marie, and the Jesus the fifth of May, 1560. 



AFter our heartie commendations to you. The 

 twelfth day of the last moneth here arrived in 

 safety, thanks be to God, our two ships, & by them 

 we received your letters & invoices very well perceiving [I. 306.] 

 what you have laden in them. The tallowe came evill Tallowe. 

 conditioned and broken, by reason it came in Corrobias, 

 wee lose and spoyle more then the Caske will cost, and 

 much of this tallowe is verie evill, blacke, soft and 

 putrified. Touching the Waxe, as yet wee knowe not Waxe. 

 howe the weight will rise, by reason that some of it 

 was lost in the barkes. The weight of the last yeeres 

 waxe did not rise so well as the other yeeres before it 

 did. There had neede good heede to bee taken in the 

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