Early Chartered Companies, AD1296-1858

Notes:

In an early work on the subject provides profiles of chartered companies including: 'Merchants of the Staple'; 'The Fraternity (Brotherhood) of St Thomas a Becket, later called the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London'; The Russia Company; The Eastland Company; The Turkey (Levant) Company'; 'The East India Company, 1600-1702'; 'The East India Company, 1702-1858'; The Hudson's Bay Company; 'The Virginia and New England Companies' - Virginia Co, the London Co, the Plymouth Co, the Massachusetts Bay Co, 'the Connecticut and Rhode Island charters', 'the Carolina charters', 'the Georgia Charter'; 'Summary account of the Guinea (Royal African) and minor chartered companies' including 'the Marocco or Barbary Co',0000000 the Canary Co, the Guiana Co, the Bermuda or Somers Islands Co, 'the China or Cathay Co'. In an appendix provides specimen charters