• merchant or adventurer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Company of Merchant Adventurers usually refers to the Company of Merchant Adventurers of...
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    The Merchant Adventurers' Hall is a medieval guildhall in the city of York, England. It is a Grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument. The...
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    Merchant Adventurers of London was a trading company founded in the City of London in the early 15th century. It brought together leading merchants in...
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    traces its roots to the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands (in full: "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions...
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  • The Society of Merchant Venturers is a charitable organisation in the English city of Bristol. The society can be traced back to a 13th-century guild which...
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  • "Merchant Adventurers" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs (also known as...
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    welcomed English Merchant Adventurers, starting to cruise in the Baltic, competing with Dutch, Saxon and Wendish Hanseatic merchants, and allowed them...
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  • signed the agreement that Cushman had brought from the Merchant Adventurers. To prove to the Adventurers that they were serious about repaying the debt owed...
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    voyage by their business agents in London, Thomas Weston of the Merchant Adventurers and Robert Cushman. Masters Mate: John Clark (Clarke), Pilot. By...
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    terms of the agreement with the Merchant Adventurers. They had embarked for America upon an understanding with the Adventurers that they might settle in a...
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    chartered and merchant companies were established to exploit international trading opportunities. The Company of Merchant Adventurers of London, chartered...
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  • meets Bedern Hall Merchant Adventurers (1357), meets Merchant Adventurers' Hall Company of Merchant Taylors (1386), meets Merchant Taylors' Hall Guild...
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    Guild (redirect from Merchant guild)
    Chinese guilds of merchants Collegium - Roman associations similar to medieval guilds Community of practice Company of Merchant Adventurers of London Company...
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    Guildhall Newcastle-under-Lyme Guildhall Newcastle upon Tyne Guildhall Merchant Adventurers' Hall, York Newport Guildhall, Isle of Wight Newport Guildhall, Shropshire...
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  • The Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands was an early joint stock association, which began with private exploration and enterprise, and was to...
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    Colony through 1636. He worked as a tanner and merchant and was recruited by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London to provide the governance for the...
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  • which they did not pay custom duties. He and some of his associate Merchant Adventurers had been brought before the Privy Council and ordered to cease unlimited...
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    where they had obtained permission to settle from the Company of Merchant Adventurers. But the strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at...
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  • Robert Bruce of Clackmannan was the son of Sir James Bruce and a direct descendant of Sir Thomas Bruce, 1st Baron of Clackmannan. Robert Bruce was a successful...
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  • colonisation [fr] 1407 Company of Merchant Adventurers of London 1552 Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers 1553 Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands 1555 Muscovy...
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    1450. Successful in business, he became governor of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London; on his business travels, he observed the new printing...
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    the first English merchant adventurers in the region; English ships appeared in the Mediterranean in the 1570s, and the English merchant company signed its...
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  • shipped trade goods for the merchant of Hamburg when they moved out of English active trade, was the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London. They got a residence...
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    became involved in the colony's finances. With the dissolving of the Merchant Adventurers there was a great need for the colonist to pay their debts. William...
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  • Sir Nathaniel Rich (1585 – 1636) was an English merchant adventurer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629...
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  • William Collier (colonist) (category Merchants from colonial Massachusetts)
    He came to Plymouth Colony in 1633 as one of the few London-based Merchant Adventurers, a colony investment group, to settle in New England. He was often...
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    valuable export of Africa. Originally known as the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa, by its charter issued on 18 December 1660 it was...
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  • first and merchants next and had branched off from the Ayyavole-500 guild. Company of Merchant Adventurers of London Company of Merchant Adventurers to New...
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  • the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands (later called the Muscovy Company). This opened by reciting the sponsors or adventurers already invested...
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    retaliation for Margaret of Burgundy's support for Perkin Warbeck. The Merchant Adventurers, the company which enjoyed the monopoly of the Flemish wool trade...
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