 | William Henry Davenport Adams - British - 1879 - 406 pages
...themselves will.' f Afterwards enlarged to twenty-four, with a chairman. body politic and corporate by the name of, ' The Governor and Company of Merchants of...Lancaster, sailed from Torbay on the 2nd of May, 1601. The voyage was by no means unsuccessful, and the Company felt encouraged to persevere in their design.... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1892 - 542 pages
...bestowed upon trading associations. It constituted the adventurers a body politic and corporate by the name of " the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, trading to the East Indies,' and vested them with the usual privileges and powers." In the case of the Bank of England (1694) "... | |
 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1879 - 392 pages
...of 1600, a charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth to a number of London merchants, under the title of " The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies." Ships were sent out to Java and Sumatra, and returned laden with calicoes, silks, indigo, and spices.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 894 pages
...Dec., 1600, a charter was granted by queen Elizabeth to a number of London merchants, under the title of "The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies." From the time when Vasco da Gama effected the eastern passage to India, by doubling the cape of Good... | |
 | Fanny Roper Feudge - Geography - 1881 - 660 pages
...$1,850,000, and obtained from Queen Elizabeth, then Sovereign of Great Britian, a charter, under the style of " The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies." This was the basis of the " British East India Company " that for two centuries and a half controlled... | |
 | Madras literary society - 1881 - 258 pages
...the llth April 1700 an Act of Parliament (llth and 12th W. Ill, c. 4) " for continuing the Governors and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies a corporation until the redemption of the two millions advanced by the English Company." The Governor... | |
 | Alfred John Church - Great Britain - 1896 - 240 pages
...PLASSEY. IN the year 1600 Queen Elizabeth gave a charter to a Company of Merchants under the title of " The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies." For some time the East India Company, as it came to be called, was a very humble affair. It built,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 844 pages
...Elizabeth granted a charter on the last day of the 16th century (31st December 1600), under the title of 'The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies.' Two later companies, after a short period of competition, united with the original association ; and... | |
 | John Horsley Mayo - Decorations of honor - 1897 - 454 pages
...Cloth, and 5 Pag" amongst the Peons for a feast.' (Page 153.) No. 70. EAST INDIA COMPANY. Obu. Arms of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies, with crest, supporters, and mottoes. Leg. NON M1NOR EST V1RTVS QVAM QV/BRERE PARTA TVERl (To guard... | |
 | Edgar Sanderson - Great Britain - 1897 - 412 pages
...the English East India Company, in accordance with this instrument, was incorporated under the title of "The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies". There were 125 shareholders, with a capital of ^70,000, increased, twelve years later, to ^400,000.... | |
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Elizabeth under the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies. 
