LETTER TO THE AGENTS a.d. 



1560. 



have appointed him, if you doe not tarie and remaine 

 there, till farther order be taken : and for his service 

 and paines hee shall be considered, as reason is, as 

 friendly as if his friends were living. Thus we trust 

 you will take such order the one to remaine at the 

 Mosco, and the other at Colmogro, or elsewhere, as 

 most neede is. Thomas Alcocke is desirous to be in 

 the Mosco : neverthelesse you shall find him reasonable 

 to serve where he may doe most good. The 62 robles [I. 308.] 

 which you received of John Boucher we have payed 

 him here, and also the 8 robles, which you received 

 the yere before of Christopher Rose, and the money 

 which you received more of George Burton, for the 

 which we have you our debtors. Thus we rest, referring 

 that which is here omitted to the report of the bringer : 

 and so God have you in his keeping. Also we 

 would that you should send us in our shippes 200 

 horse-clothes more. The things before written wee 

 would that you should let our servants see and reade, 

 to the intent they may perceive our mindes. 



Another letter to the foresaid parties. 1560. 



THis letter before written is the copie of one sent you 

 by Thomas Alcock, trusting that hee was with you 

 long since. The 26 day of the last moneth we received 

 a letter from him, dated in Stockholme in Sweden the Stockholm. 

 14 day of January, and we perceive by his letter that 

 hee had talked with a Dutch man that came lately from 

 the Mosco, who informed him that our friend Master 

 Antony Jenkinson was returned to the Mosco in Sep- 

 tember last past, but how farre he had beene, or what 

 he had done, he could not tell. Also he wrote that 

 one John Lucke a Joyner was taken by the Liefelanders, Jo ^ n Luck 

 and put in prison. As yet wee have not heard from f™ P™ *** 



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the sayd John Lucke, nor know not whether he be 

 released out of prison or not. We suppose that by 

 him you wrote some letter which as yet is not come to 

 our hands : so that we thinke hee is yet in prison, or 



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