The Early Chartered Companies (A.D. 1296-1858)The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 27 במרץ 2017 - 346 עמודים The first study of all the great English chartered trading and colonizing companies that were incorporated before the 19th century. Originally published: London: Edward Arnold, 1896. Frontispiece. xi, 329 pp. A study of the inner workings of early chartered companies, especially in their direct connection to the rise and expansion of British commercial and political power between 1296 and 1858. Describes regulated and joint stock companies and such ventures as the Hanseatic League, The Russia Company, The Eastland Company, The Turkey (Levant) Company, the Hudson Bay and East India Companies and other British ventures in India, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. With a thorough index and an appendix containing examples of early charters. |
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... James I. to the Merchant Adventurers there is a reservation to the merchants of the Staple of full liberty to trade into the limits of those charters . And when at length it was judged expedient to enact a total prohibition of the ...
... James I. It is curious to read that the English , who were already the best cloth - weavers in the world , had not yet learned the much simpler craft of colouring the products of their busy looms . The consequence was that their white ...
... James had to give way , annulling Cockayne's patent and restoring their privileges to the Adventurers ( 1617 ) . The company were accused of constantly making handsome ' New Year's gifts ' to the Ministers of State for the continuance ...
... James I. that the Dutch were everywhere outstripping the English , and espe cially monopolizing the carrying trade by the structure or roominess of their shipping , holding much mer- chandise , though sailing with fewer hands than our ...
... James I. But then came a revival , and hopes were for a time greatly raised by the ambitious project of Sir Henry Neville , who in 1613 proposed to extend the company's operations , not merely to Persia , as had already been done by ...
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CHAPTER VI | 67 |
PAGE | 86 |
CHAPTER VIII | 120 |
CHAPTER IX | 154 |
CHAPTER X | 194 |
CHAPTER XI | 228 |
THE NAMES OF NOBLEMEN AND PERSONS OF HONOUR | 245 |
APPENDIX III | 305 |
INDEX | 321 |