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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... Interlopers . ' On that occasion they claimed to have sprung from the London Guild of Mercers , a company of English merchants who started the first woollen manufacture in England in 1296 , and obtained privileges from John , Duke of ...
... Interlopers . ' A clear idea of the main points at issue is afforded by an Act of Parlia- ment passed in 1497 , providing , among other things , that ' every Englishman shall have free recourse to certain THE FRATERNITY OF ST . THOMAS A ...
... interlopers , as before . But here they had much to contend with owing to the machinations of the Spanish envoys , and still more to the open opposition of the Hanseatics , jealous of their growing influence in the North . This is very ...
... interlopers the precincts of the company , which was now officially renamed ' The Fel- lowship of English Merchants for Discovery of New Trades . ' Within these precincts were also now in- cluded ' the countries of Armenia , Media ...
... interlopers , but also against the Dutch , who had begun about the year 1578 to encroach upon the company's preserves along the coast of Russian Lap- land . But it is difficult to see how foreigners could be affected by an English ...
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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 |