The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, vol 4 | Page 3

those goods of theirs shall be layd vp in a place of
safegard vntil such time as the said sir William Garrard or his company
come to demand the same: and then at their comming we will that it
shall be deliuered. And whereas heretofore we haue giuen sir William
Garrard and his company in this our kingdome of Mosco the new castle
by the church of S. Maxim behinde the market, they shal there stil
holde their house as heretofore we haue giuen them, paying no custome
for the same: and we also do licence them to keepe one Russe porter or
two or els of their owne countrey, and those porters shall dwell with
them, and not sell for them, nor barter, nor buy for them: And also I
haue granted them to buy a house at Volodga and at Colmogro, or in
any other place where they can chuse for them selues any good harbour,
and there they to set vp those houses in those places at their owne
charges: and in Vologda or the other houses to keepe two or three
porters of their owne, or else two or three Russes, and their wares to be
layed vp in those houses, and to sell their owne wares at will: and the
porters without them to sell none of their wares, neither yet to buy any
for them. And our officers of Colmogro and Dwina, and of other our
castles and townes shall not looke ouer their wares, nor take any
custome thereof: neither shall those English merchants sir William
Garrard and his company be iudged by any of them. And when the
English merchants shall send from our kingdome their owne people
into their owne countrey by land ouer other kingdomes whatsoeuer they
be, they may without ware send their owne people at their pleasure.
And when any matter of law doth fall out in their trade of merchandise,

then they shall be iudged by our chancellers and law shalbe done with
equitie betwixt our people and them: and when they cannot be iudged
by law, they then shal be tried by lots, and whose lot is first taken out,
he shall haue the right. [Sidenote: Triall by lots.] And if it happen any
of those merchants to haue any matter of law in any other part of our
dominions for trade of merchants, then our captaines, iudges, and
chiefe officers shall heare the matter, and administer iustice with equity
and trueth, and where law can take no place, to be tried by lots, and his
lot that is first taken out to haue the right, and for their matters of law
no custome to be payed.
[Sidenote: The riuer of Ob traffikable.] Furthermore, we for our sisters
sake Elizabeth haue granted, that none beside sir William Garrard and
his company, out of what kingdome soeuer it be, England or other,
shall come in trade of merchandise nor otherwise to Colmogro, nor to
the riuer Ob, nor within Wardhouse, nor to Petzora, nor Cola, nor
Mezen, nor to the abbey of Petchingo, nor to the island of Shallawy,
nor to any mouth of the riuer of Dwina, nor to any part of the North
countrey of our coast. And if any merchant, out of what countrey
soeuer it be, doe come with ship or shippes, busses, or any other kinde
of vessell to any of our harbours, within all our North parts, we will
that then the people and goods, ship or ships, shalbe confiscate, and
forfeited to vs the Emperour and great Duke.
Giuen in our kingdome and house of Mosco, the yeere from the
beginning of the world 7076, in the moneth of September, and in the 34
yeere of our reigne, and in our conquest of Cazan 16, and in our
conquest of Astracan 15.
Perused and allowed by vs: Anthonie Ienkinson. William Rowly.
Thomas Hawtry. Thomas Sowtham. Rafe Rutter, our translatour hereof
of the Russe tongue.
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A letter of M. Henrie Lane to M. Richard Hakluit, concerning the first
ambassage to our most gracious Queene Elizabeth from the Russian
Emperour anno 1567, and other notable matters incident to those places

and times.
Worshipfull sir, because I finde you haue the successe and proceedings
of Osep Napea the first ambassadour of the Russian Emperour to the
Maiesties of King Philip and Queene Marie, at what time and at his
returne I was remaining in Russia, and do not finde that the perfect
knowledge of the first ambassage from thence to this our Souereigne
Ladie Queene Elizabeth is come to your hands, betweene whose
Highnesse and the ambassadours I was interpretour, I thinke good to
expresse it. In August Anno 1567 arriued at London with their retinue
two especiall authorised messengers,