So ordered the governors their full-powered servant Anthony Jenkinson, who was further commanded to "reduce our stipendiaries to a better order in apparel; forbid them riding, for such excessiveness corrupteth all good natures, bringeth obloquy to our nation and also loss to ourselves." "Item 34" of this long command is "no dogs, bears, or superfluous burdens to be kept; no bond-men or women to wait upon them." "Item 39, they shall pay for their apparel not at cost price but at the selling price in Russia." Among other things the unfortunate ill-clad apprentice bore in the frozen north during arctic winter was punishment for the company's misdoings, but the governors, "doubt that Alcock's death proceeded from asking for payment of our debts, as Edwardes writes, but that he either quareled inadvisedly or else constrained the people touching their religion, laws, or manners, being given wisdom wolde to mislike and mock other strangers." No wonder the English left the factory and tried to make a living for themselves, but withal there were many of the right grit among them, to wit, Anthony Jenkinson who passed through Moscow in 1558 determined upon finding a way to the Indies by the Caspian. This intrepid adventurer reached Ispahan with the goods of the Russia company and returned burdened with rich barter and precious gifts. Later he fitted out a fleet on the Caspian and made war on the Turcomans with some success, an undertaking the difficulties of which can scarcely be estimated seeing that he could communicate with England only by way of Archangel,--a port closed by ice for one half of the year. Jenkinson had not only to contend with pirates on the Volga, but was warned that the Danes might attempt to seize his ships,--_Primrose_, 240 tons; _John Evangelist_, 170; _Anne_, 160; _Trinitie_, 140;--as they passed the wardhouse (Vardso) "where be enemies that do mislike the newe found trade by seas to Russia." Sigismund II., King of Poland, tried his utmost to stop the traffic, "sending messengers with pretended letters of thanks to English merchants in order to make the Tsar, Ivan, suspicious of them.