...of Asia and Africa, and to the islands thereabouts, to be one body politic and corporate by the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies, to have succession, to purchase lands without limitations, to have one governor and twenty-four persons...

...But the most important commercial event in the reign of Elizabeth was the incorporation of a company, under the title of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, trading to the East Indies. When that trading company was established, little was it supposed that the foundation was then laid...

...English Company, for which she was then preparing a charter ; and, on the 31st December 1600, the first English East India Company was incorporated, by Royal...Merchants of London " trading to the East Indies." The Charter consisted of " a privilege, for fifteen years, granted by Her Majesty " to certain adventurers,...

...Company for whom she was then preparing a charier; ami on 31*t December, 1690, the English Eist In Ha Company was incorporated by Royal charter under the...trading to the East Indies." The original company had one hundred mid twenty-rive shareholders and a capital of only £70,000. The corporation was to be...

...England's Treasure by Forraign Trade (written c. 1623; published 1664), and The Petition and Remonstrance of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading to the East-Indies (1628); and Edward Misselden's Free Trade; or, the Meanes to Make Trade Florish (1622)...

...vnto the East Indies. 1621. England's Treasure by Forraigne Trade. 1664. The Petition and Remonstrance of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading to the East Indies. London, 1628. Munday, Anthony. Chrysanaleia, or The Golden Fishing. Ed. John Gough Nichols. 2nd edn....

...Constantinople to the Great Mughal to apply for privileges for an English Company. On the 3ist December i6oo,3 the English East India Company was incorporated by...Company had only 125 shareholders, and a capital of .£70,000, which was raised to .£400,000 in 1612-13, when voyages were first undertaken on the jointstock...