Companies of Merchants, <§-c. 



[GENERAL 



i6oo Kafl-India company . . ii^ 216 



jtioz Dutcli Euft-India Company . . 226 



i5o+ French Eaft-Iiiciia company - . jSi 



• Conipsnv f"' 'Vaue with Spain and Portugal 241 



1605 r;;;j|i- patent revoked - - 241 



i6o0 S';v".ui-Virginia company, and Plymouth adven- 

 turers, cliartered for colonizing Virginia 246 

 1S07 Fellow lliip for northern pafftige to China 24S 



After 1610 New-river company - - - 257 



Adventurers for a colony in Newfoundland 260 



161S Scotiifli whale-fidiing company - - 287 



Eaft-India andRvilTia whale-fidiing company 287 



Guinea company with joint ftock - - 292 



1620 Adventurers for colony and trade in the River 



Amazons — the king orders them to be feized 

 governors commanded not to allill theni 300 



iGii Dutch Weft-India company - - 308 



ifTii Dutch whalc-tilhing company ... 316 

 J624 Engl illi companies of merchants exempted from 



the laws againft monopolies - - 325 



1631 Neiv African company ... 369 



1633 Fiftiery company - - - 365, 367 



if'lS New Eaft-India company for 5 years - 395 



1641 French Welt-India company - . 421 



1648 Swedilh company for pitch and tar . 432 



1652 Swedilh African company . - 449 



iCGi Royal fiftiery company of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land, tlie duke of York, &c. - 503 

 1662 New African company duke of York, &G. 508 

 i56+ French Eaft-lndia and Weft-India company 516 

 1670 Hudfon's-bay company chartered 555 

 J673 N<w African company, king, duke of York, &c. 56S 

 1677 Company of the royal fiftiery of England, duke 



of York, &.C. - - . 584 



16S5 French new (or fouth) Guinea company 622 



1689 Sword-blade company ... 638 



1692 Royal hiftring company . . 651 



i6y3 London Greenland company . . 653 



1694 Bank of England ... 656 



1695 Scottilh African and India Company . 665 



Bank of Scotland .... 669 



Million bank .... 670 



• ' Linen mamifacflurers, the king, &g. . 672 



—— Many companies of projectors - . 673 



1696 French royal Senegal company . 682 

 169S New Englifti Eall-lndia company - 699 



French royal company of St. Domingo - 701 



Luftring company fanftioned by parliament 701 



J704 Mine-adventurers company - - 732 



J706 Amicable fociety for infurance on lives iii, 86 



170S Charitable corporation for leuding money 4 



J711 Mercliants of Great Britain trading to the 



South fea . - - - ig 



1717 French bank " - - J5 



French Miftiiippi company - . 5^ 



1720 Royal-exchange aliurance company . 85 



London ad'urance company - . g^ 



1722 Cliellea water company . - 121 



1717 Royal bank of Scotland . . ii, 670 



1751 Swedifli Eaft-lndia company - iii, 167 



1746 Britifti linen company . . 251 



1750 Society of free Britifti fiftiery . . 276 



. New African company ... 280 



1764 Englifti linen company . . 401 



1765 Eali-India, &c. of Prulfia - . 419 

 1767 Danifti filliing company at Altcna . 459 



1772 Company for mining near Lake Superior 325 



1773 Company of plate-glafs manufacturers . 535 

 1776 Cailfe d'efcompte at Paris . - 596 

 1783 Bank of Ireland - - - - - iv, 20 

 1786 Britifti fociety for extending the fiflicries and 



improving the coafts . - tio 



17$ 9 Nortluimbcrland fiftiery fociety - 186 



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 219 

 22S 

 130 

 231 



240 



241,244 



270 



327 



1791 Sierra-Leona company . . . . iv 



1799 Weft-India dock company 



- Company for tunnel under the Thames 



Globe infurance company 



1800 Bread company ... 



London dock company . . _ 



851 Compajs apparently unknown in China i, 



i20o;l In an imperfeft liatc now ufed at fea — hiftor. 

 ical ficetch of the progrefs of the ftience of 

 polar magnetifm and improvements in tlic 

 compafs .... ..5, 



1269 Seems now perfeftly well known - 4,3 



1765 An attempt to explain the variation . 111,415 

 17S7 Co'JclidiitedJundXiiovmed from the whole duties 

 of every kind, and pays all intereft on tlie 

 national debt, &:c. iv, 124 



ConJtantinopU, and Cmjlantinopaliian, or Greet em- 

 pire . 

 334II Conft^antinople (formerly Byzantium) becomes 

 the capital of the Roman empire — its ad- 

 vantageous fituation for dominion and trade i, 207 

 419 The emperor proliiblts his fubjefts from in- 



ftrucfing foreigners in ftiipbuilding 

 441 Emperor fits out a fleet of 1,100 veffels 

 46S And now another of 1,1 13 

 533 Italy, &C. conquered by Belifarius 



Trade ruined by Juftinian's exactions 

 552 Silk-wonns obtained from the Kaft; 

 640 Syria and Egypt loft 

 66s Sec. city befteged by the Saracens 

 950 The gallies carry only two tires of oars 

 1 146 C. ftill excells in manufitctures and arts 

 1 1 55 The emperor pays tribute to Genoa 

 1160 C. the richeft city of Europe, but its trade all 



paftlve, and manufaftures managed by Jews 335 

 1171 Empire humbled by Venice, tributary to Pifa 



34ti 34* 

 1103 Emperor reftored by crufaders - 36$ 



1204 Who take pofTeftion of the empire . 369 



1261 Greek empire reftored by the Genoefe - 411 



1453 City taken by the 7 urks, and the Greek em- 

 pire extinguiftied ... 669 

 1572 French, Venetian, Genoefe, Florentine, confuls 



at Conftantinople, but no Englifti one ii, 154 

 1:62 Co;7/i/i from Genoa in every country - i, 337 



1347 Fiift mention of confuls in Englifti records 536 



1485 A Florentine conful of Eng. merchants at Pifa 705 

 ( There were fimilar appoijutments of foreigners 

 afterwards, and are to this day.) 

 1503 Conful, or Confervator, ofScottifti merchants in 



the Netherlands — hisoffice defined by pari, ii, 24. 

 1640 A conful-gereral appointed for Alicant . 410 

 1765-74 Reports of feveral confuls 



iii, 425, 432, 467, 474, 4S0, 493, 560 

 1777 Manifefls of cargoes of Britilh velTels in tJie 



Baltic to be delivered to the confuls - 607 

 Conveition of royal burghs of Scotland probably ori- 

 ginated in the court of the tour burghs — See 

 Boardi cf trade, and - - V. i, 440, 616 

 1477, 1487 Embufiies fent at the expenfe of the 



buighh. - . . 695, 707 



1487 They obtain ratification of commercial laws, 



and a." conftituted an annual court . 707 



1764 They p: 'V '.he king to revoke a licence given to 



the Dutch to recruit in Scotland - iii, 401 

 1767 Their report on the herring fiftiery - 459 



17S2 Money I.t inLinagement of the lords of police put 



under management of the convention 717 



Convey of warlike Skips — See Tunnage and poundage 



—Shipping 



304*Sent to protect merchant veflels from Rhodes i, 82 



1330 Genoefe have very ftrong convoys - 504 



1333 Fiift iio;;;e ut convoy for Englifti veffels J19 



