Ledger and Sword: Or, The Honourable Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies (1599-1874)Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - India |
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Achin affairs afterwards Amboyna amongst appointed arrived Aungier Aurangzeb Bantam Batavia Bengal Bombay Captain cargo charge Charles charter chief Child China command commerce committee Company's agents Company's servants Company's service Company's ships Company's trade Coromandel Coast Council Court Courten's despatched directors Dutch East India Company enemies England English establish factory favour firman fleet Fort St French Golconda Gombroon Governor granted hand honour hope Indian trade Indies interlopers Japan Joint Stock King James King's Lancaster land Leadenhall Street letter London Lord Madras Majesty master Masulipatam merchandise merchant adventurers Middleton Mogul monopoly native obtained officers Old Company ordered Ormuz Oxenden pany pany's Parliament pepper Persia petition port Portuguese President privileges profits received resolved rivals royal sailed saltpetre sent Shah silks Sir Edward Winter Sir Henry Middleton Sir Thomas Speult Spice Islands Surat tion Towerson treaty vessels voyage William wrote
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Page 44 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc.
Page 43 - ... into and from the East Indies, in the countries and parts of Asia and Africa, and into and from the islands, ports, havens, cities, creeks, towns, and places of Asia, Africa, and America, or any of them, beyond the cape of Bona Esperanza, to the Straits of Magellan...
Page 400 - ... goods they had taken away, to the owners of them, and would walk by the ancient customs of the port, and behave themselves for the future no more in such a shameful manner; therefore his Majesty, according to his...
Page 26 - ... shot from the castle into his belly, wherewith he gave three leaps by report and died immediately'.
Page 370 - Germany during the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth century if she did not actually begin, at any rate she encouraged and actively aided, the religious wars.
Page 84 - There belong to that state, twenty thousand 'vesse's of all sorts, so that, if the Spaniards were entirely beaten out of those parts, the Kings of France and England would take as much pains to suppress, as ever they did to raise them ; for, being our enemies, they are able to give us the law at sea, and eat us out of all trade, much more the French, having at this time three ships to our one, though none so good as our best.
Page 43 - Elizabeth under the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies.
Page 278 - Behold then the true form and worth of foreign trade, which is, the great revenue of the king, the honour of the kingdom, the noble profession of the merchant, the school of our arts, the supply of our wants, the employment of our poor, the improvements of our lands, the nursery of our mariners, the walls of the kingdoms, the means of our treasure, the sinews of our wars, the terror of our enemies.
Page 76 - Andrew dock'd(^ in sand, Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs, To kiss her burial. Should I go to church, And see the holy edifice of stone, And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks, Which touching but my gentle vessel's side, Would scatter all her spices on the stream ; Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks...
Page 352 - ... towards the public good, being taxed by themselves, than sixpence imposed by our despotical power (notwithstanding they shall submit to when we see cause), were Government to manage such a society, as to make them proud of their honour and preferment, and yet only ministerial, and subservient to the ends of the Government, which under us is yourselves.