INDEX.] 



Coal. 



444 

 460 

 460 



4S0 



484 

 500 



53' 

 535 

 575 

 601 

 6 11) 



649 



710 



iv, S3 



173 



2gl 



281 n 

 296 

 341 



472 



475 

 484 

 487 



5" 

 512 



1765 Quantity exported tt) Holland . ili, 42S 



Co:.l found by Cajit. Conk in Newfoundland 437 « 



1766 Alii; foi (liippino; coal in due lotation 



1767 Duty of 6(/pei- ch.ildroii granted to London 



Ai:l for meters, meafiire of facks, &e. 



Coal dug in Cape Breton 



Trade interniptfd by combinations 



1768 Advantage of fire engines in working coal 

 1770 Coal-heavers regulated ... 



1772 Quantity brought to London this year 



1773 Att for (liipping in due rotation continued 

 1775 Colliers in Srotland tobe gradually emancipated 



1777 \St againrt fra\ids in mcafuring continued 



1778 Duty of a halfpenny perchaldron continued 

 '779 Quantity brought to London 1773-1778 

 16S2 Aft for fliipping in due rotation continued 

 178,5 Com! ination of Ihip-owners, &c. defeated 

 17S8 Aft againfl combinations of buyers 



1793 Coafting duty on coal in Scotland repealed 

 Pernicious etl'ccts of that duty 



1794 Exportation of culm to Lifbon encouraged 

 J795 New duty on exportation 



1799 Culliers in Scotland more fully ernancipated 



Aft for an annuity to tlie duke of Richmond in- 



ftead of his tax upon coal 

 — — — Coal at a monftrous price in London 

 ■ Coal Oiipped from New South Wales 



1800 Inquiry into tlie coal trade by parliament — 



quantities arrived in London 1781-1S00 

 .^— Quantities rtiipped at Newcafile, &c. 

 Ci-al tar, pitch, oil, (Sc. 



1779 Tar made at Briftol from the oil extrafted from 



coal, and tlieprocefs improved by Lord Dun- 

 donald foas to make coal yield oil, volatile 

 fpirits, varnifh, tar, pitch, and coak iii, 648 



1785 Lord D. gets an excluiive patent for the manu- 



fafture in all the Britidi dominions for 20 years iv,72 



1660 Coafnng trade — foreigners excluded from it ii, 485 



1791 Aft for coafting velfels havingarticles - iv, 221 



1792 Simdry regulations ... 235 



1781 Cobalt inay be imported without duty iii, 689 

 1730 C'c^ibm/ imported by the South-fea company iii, 155 



Nature of it — a dye fuperior to it made in Ja- 

 maica . - . . i^j n 

 1-161 May be imported without duty - - 461 



1782 Aft for free importation continued - - 708 

 Aft further continued - iv, 187, 372 



1799 Quantities imported 1772-1799 - 469, 470 



1608 Cockayne, Alderman, gets a patent for dying and 



finishing cloth - - . ii, 250 



1295 Ccco nuts apparently confidered as objefts of 



admiration - . i, 44S, 664 n 



1453 Cocvr, Jacques, an illuftrious French merchant 1,670 

 ^Coffee introduced into Arabia, probably from 



Abyflinia, in the dark ages - . i, 165(2 



»6i6 Carried froin Mocha to Holland . ii, 44S 



1652 Brought to England — a coffee-houfe opened 447 

 1660 Kxcife on coffee granted to the king . 489 



1732 Inland duty on Jamaica coffee reduced iii, 178 



J781 Aft encoiuaglig Brit, plant, coffee continued 688 



1783 Duty reduced, and revenue thereby augmented iv,2 2 



1784 Duty altered - . . . ^, 

 1788 Aft encouraginsi Brit, plant, coffee continued 171 

 J7S9 Cultivation vallly increafed in St. Domingo 196 

 J791 Profpeft of increafe of coffee in Jamaica 227,256 

 1792 Foreign coffee admitted in certnin ports, &c. 234 



1795 Additional duty ... 34.1 

 - — — Regulations for warehoufing, &c. - 349 



1796 Aft for encouraging coffee partly continued 372 

 179S May be moved from port to port . 442 

 1799 Additional duty ... 473 



Ccmn^e — See Mov*y. 

 i478 Co/^fr^ withdraws from the Hanfc - 1,696 



". 145 



49 ^ 



1, 14 



17 

 •24 



>> 371 

 383 

 383 



668 

 686 

 693 

 694 



707 

 O32 



14 Colehfjler fCamulodanumJhm a mint — is flic firft 



Britifli town m.-ntioned by any author i, 13^ 



^2 Made a Roman colony ... 152, 195 



61 Burnt by Boadicia . - . 154 



314 The fee of a billiop (doublf-.il) . . 20; 



1567 Manufafture cf b.iize introduced 



1660 Privileges of the manufaCtuicrs confirmed 



1300' Co/f/Hi co'oaized by Egyptians 



1226* Argonauiic expedition to Colchis 



14 Proituce and trade ... 



Colaus — See Sninians. 

 1203 Cj,'(J!;fff merchants trade with England i, 



1221 They eft-iblilh a gildh.ill in London 

 1235 Are permitted to attend fairs in England 

 1452 Preferve friendlhip with England, while the 



other Hanfe towns are hoftile 

 1470 Favoured exclulively by king Henry VI 

 1476 Rejoin the Hanfe, now reconciled to England 



Cologne, the chief of a divifion of tlie Hanfe 



i486 On a difpute with Scotland letters of marque 



iffued - ... 



1688 Depopulated by intolerance . ii, 



Colon,(cix Columbus) ChriJIopher, ftimulated by the 



worksof Ariftotle,Pto!einy,and Marco Polo, 



10 fearch for a direct well route to India, 



i. V5. 94. 459.. 7 'O 

 i4So||Receives a chart with India on the weft lide of 



it .... 664(1 



14S8 Sends his brother to propofe the difcovery in 

 England - .... 



1492 Difcovers St. Salvador and Cuba 



1493 Sails for Hifpaniola ... 

 1497 Lands on the continent at Venezuela 

 1502 Extends his difcoverics - - 

 1799 Com/>(na/zoni of journeymen, &c. punifhed 

 iSoo Aft rendered more ftrift, includes m.ifters 

 1766 Commons — afts palfed for dividing them 



Companies, gilds, or fraternities, 0/ trade/men. 

 Tlic weavers the moft antient known in Engl. i,3i6 

 1504 Their bye laws fubjeft to the controul of the 



chancellor - - - - ii, 26 



1548 Muft not ubftruft builders ... lot 



1549 The exemption of builders repealed - loi 

 Companiescf merchants, &c. — See Hanfe. 



(N. B. The proprietors of every canal are in- 

 corporated as a joint-flock company.) 

 Before 73!! Some appearance of a powerful company 



bcingeftabUlhedin the fouth part of Arabia 1,163 

 1220 Meichants of Cologne holding a gildhall in 

 London, probably the predeceffors of. the 

 Hanfe merchants of the Teutonic gildhall 383 

 124S Brotherhood of St Thomas Eccket(doubtfal) 397 

 1313 Mercliants of the llaple, apparently now a Corp. 478 

 1359 Merchant adventurers (date doubtful) - 560 

 1444 African comj.any, under theaufpices of Prince 



Henry of Portugal ... 661 



490 Engl illi merchants trading to Pifa - 705.715 



710 



ii, 2 



4 



14 



21 



.475 

 500 

 iii, 447 



IV 



156; 

 156S 



"579 



1554 Rulfia company chartered 



1560 Merchants of Exeter trading to France 



1564 Hamburgii company ... 



Rnlfia company fanftioned by parliament 



Mineral and battery company 



Continued in 1603 ... 



Scottifh merchants trading in the Netherlands 



Eaflland meichants of England 

 1 58 1 Turkey company . . . . - 



Said to have fprung out of a decayed Barbary 

 comp.iny - - 



15S3 Fellowlhip fordifcovery of a north-weft pafTage 



patented - . , 



1585 Morocco company patented for 12 years 

 1588 Guinea company patented for loyears 

 1593 Mjre,i company, a branch of the Turkey 



"7 

 '35 

 140 

 142 

 14J 

 239 

 164 

 164 

 168 



'7« 



"74 

 17$ 

 189 

 30a- 



