First the governor, consuls, assistants, and whole company assembled
this day in open Court committeth and authoriseth Richard Gray and
George Killingworth jointly and severally to be agents, factors, and
attorneys, general and special, for the whole body of this company;
to buy, sell, truck, change, and permute, all and every kind and
kinds of wares, merchandises, and goods, to the said company
appertaining, now laden and shipped in the good ship called the
Edward Bonaventure, appointed for Russia, the same to utter and sell
to the most commodity, profit, and advantage of the said
corporation, be it for ready money, wares, and merchandises, or
truck, presently, or for time, as occasion and benefit of the
company shall require, and all such wares as they or either of them
shall buy, truck, or provide, or cause to be bought for the company
to lade them homeward in good order and condition, as by prudent
course of merchandises shall, and ought to appertain, which article
extendeth also to John Brooke for the Wardhouse, as in the
seventeenth and eighteenth articles of this commission appeareth.

2. Item, it is also committed, as above, to the said agents, to
bind and charge the said company by debt for wares upon credit, as
good opportunity and occasion shall serve, with power to charge and
bind the said company and their successors for the payments of such
things as shall be taken up for credit, and the said agents to be
relieved, ab opere satis dandi.

3. Item, full authority and power is committed to the said first-
named factors, together with Richard Chanceler, grand pilot of this
fleet, to repair to the Emperor's court, there to present the King