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Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt
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accustomed diets, with warehouses, cellars, and other houses of
offices requisite; and that none of the inferior ministers, of what
place or vocation soever he be, do lie out of the house of the
agents without license to be given; and that every inferior officer
shall be obedient to the orders, rules, and governments of the said
agents; and in case any disobedient person shall be found among any
of them, then such person to be punished for his misbehaviour at the
discretion of the said agents, or of one of them in the absence of
the other.

6. Item, if any person of the said ministers shall be of such pride
or obstinacy, that after one or two honest admonitions he will not
be reformed nor reconciled from his faults, then the said agents to
displace every such person from the place or room to him here
committed, and some other discreet person to occupy the same, as to
the said agents by their discretions shall seem meet.

7. Item, if any person shall be found so arrogant, that he will not
be ordered nor reformed by the said agents, or by one of them in the
absence of the other, then the said person to be delivered to the
justice of the country, to receive such punishment as the laws of
the country do require.

8. Item, that the said agents and factors shall daily one hour in
the morning confer and consult together what shall be most
convenient and beneficial for the company; and such orders as they
shall determine, to be written by the secretary of the company, in a
book to be provided for that purpose; and no inferior person to
infringe or break any such order or device, but to observe the same
exactly, upon such reasonable pain as the agents shall put him to by
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