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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... seas , when they develop commercial relations between their own and foreign countries , these opera- tions in semi - barbarous times become risky , and need the protection both of their own rulers and of the foreign States where they ...
... sea robbers , by whom the highways , estuaries , and coasts of Northern Europe were infested far into the four- teenth century . The oldest extant written records of the League appear to date from about 1239 , when Hamburg formed an ...
... sea , so so that all perished . ' At certain other times , ' complains King Henry IV . , ' both in our own reign , and in that of King Richard II . , those Hanseatics violently seized the effects of English merchants at Bergen , and ...
... seas . And as in those days the local industries needed the protection of royal charters , so the commercial bodies trading outside the kingdom needed at first the shelter of the Crown against home rivalries and foreign aggression ...
... , were the founders of the greatness of that city , which soon after their arrival became a most flourishing sea- port , so that ' houses therein , which used to be let for 40 or 60 dollars , were now let for 300 22 THE CHARTERED COMPANIES.
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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 |