appoint such persons of the company as shall be thought meet for
that purpose, to take view and consider the ship and her lading, and
shall give order for the breaking up of the said bulk, or give
license by discretion, for things to be brought to land. And that
every officer shall show the invoice of his charge to him first
committed, and to examine the wastes and losses, and to deliver the
remainder to the use and benefit of the company, according to such
order as shall be appointed in that behalf.

22. Item, the company exhorteth, willeth, requireth, not only all
the said agents, pilots, masters, merchants, clerks, boatswains,
stewards, skafemasters, and all other officers and ministers of this
present voyage, being put in charge and trust daily to peruse, read,
and study, such instructions as be made, given, and delivered to
them for perfect knowledge of the people of Russia, Muscovy,
Wardhouse, and other places; their dispositions, laws, manners,
customs, uses, tolls, carriages, coins, weights, numbers, measures,
wares, merchandises, commodities and incommodities, the one to be
accepted and embraced, the other to be rejected and utterly
abandoned, to the intent that every man taking charge, may be so
well taught, perfected, and readily instructed, in all the premises,
that, by ignorance, no loss or prejudice may grow or chance to the
company, assuring themselves, that forasmuch as the company hath
travailed and laboured so in these their instructions to them given,
that every man may be perfect, and fully learned to eschew all
losses, hurts, and damages, that may ensue by pretence or colour of
none knowledge, the company extendeth not to allow, or accept
ignorance for any lawful or just cause of excuse, in that which
shall be misordered by negligence, the burthen whereof shall light
upon the negligent offending person, especially upon such as of