HIGH COURT OF MADRAS. 



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should remain under the management of their respective 

 Directors. The second was an Indenture Tripartite made 

 between Queen Anne of the first part, the London Company 

 of the second part, and the English Company of the third 

 part, and it was thereby agreed that the London Company 

 should purchase as much of the stock of the English Company 

 at par as would vest in each an equal proportion of the 

 £2,000,000 raised under the Statute 9 & 10, W. Ill, c. 44 ; 

 that in future the trade to India should be carried on for 

 seven years on the two United Stocks in the name of the 

 English Company, but the London Company to have an equal 

 management of the trade ; that the London Company should 

 in two months after the expiration of the seven years surrender 

 their Charters into the hands of the Queen, who engaged to 

 accept such surrender ; and that thenceforward the Charter 

 of the English Company should be considered that of both 

 and the two Companies should take the name in future of 

 " The United Company of Merchants of England trading to 

 the East Indies." The provisions as to the maintenance of 

 Protestant Ministers, Schoolmasters and Chaplains, contained 

 in the English Company's Charter, were repeated in this 

 Deed, with the addition that the Ministers should have 

 precedence next after the fifth person that should be of the 

 Council in any of the Superior Factories. The third Deed 

 was an Indenture Quinquepartite made between the two Com- 

 panies and three sets of trustees, by which the Islands of 

 Bombay and Santa Helena, and also all the forts, factories, 

 settlements, estates and things thereinafter mentioned lying 

 and being between the Cape of Grood Hope and the Straits of 

 Magellan and the London Company's house in Leadenhall 

 Street and "Warehouses in Great St. Helens, were transferred 

 to the English Company. 



In 1707 Her Majesty's Government were driven to the 

 expedient of calling for aid from every corporation in order 



