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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... the urgent question of the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela . I was therefore glad to accept Professor Keane's offer to utilize as much of the available printed and manuscript material as might suffice to present.
... present an intelligible summary of the more important companies . How he has acquitted himself of the somewhat thankless task must be left to the judgment of the reader . " The object was to give a clear picture of the inner workings of ...
... present work . The labour expended in the preparation of this work will not be regretted , should it have the effect of awakening public interest in our great historical Chartered Companies , and of inducing others to enter on this ...
... present work was projected long before the un- fortunate position created by recent events in South Africa . GEORGE CAWSTON . June , 1896 . CONTENTS CHAPTER I. CHARTERS AND CHARTERED CORPORATIONS - THE HAN- viii PREFACE.
... present Houses of Parliament , whence it was removed in 1375 to the Inn of Chancery in Holborn , which afterwards became known as Staple Inn . Abroad , the Staplers appear to have been for a long time confined to one mart in the ...
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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 |