...attentive ear, and on the very last day of the sixteenth century an East India Company was founded, under the title of the "United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies. On the arrival of the English in India, the Dutch were their chief enemy — but from Holland in a...

...finally effected in 1708, when an act of parliament was passed, establishing the conjoined association under the title of " the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies." The constitution adopted for managing the affairs of this great Company was as follows : — The whole...

...was established in 1098, but it was shortly afterwards incorporated with the old one by Queen Anne, under the title of " The United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies." Commerce now increased with great rapidity, until 17 10, from which time, however, until 1748, it made...

...was effected in 1702, when an act of parliament was passed, establishing the conjoined association under the title of the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies. Stock was raised by the sale of shares, and the shareholders to a certain amount were entitled to elect...

...was effected in 1702, when an act of parliament was passed, establishing the conjoined association under the title of the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies. Stock was raised by the sale of shares, and the shareholders to a certain amount were entitled to elect...

...obliged, after a series of violent recriminations, to incorporate itself with the elder association under the title of " THE UNITED COMPANY OF MERCHANTS TRADING TO THE EAST INDIES." They instituted a Court of Proprietors, from which was chosen a Committee of twenty-four, called the...

...India, who, by their discords, had disturbed the profitable course of trade, were now incorporated under the title of the " United Company of Merchants Trading to the East India" (" Indies" was a term which did not come into fashion for some time later), and affairs were,...

...Court of Hindoostan, with a view of obtaining a firman or privilege for that Company which in 1708 took the title of " The United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies." As far as Sir William Norris was concerned, he failed, and died on his passage home. Queen Elizabeth...

...sense of mutual danger induced the companies to agree, in 1702, to a compromise, and to act thenceforth under the title of " The United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies." Godolphin was appointed arbiter, and on the basis of his decision was formed a government composed...

...results of the rivalry they had created, and the two Companies were amalgamated by universal consent, under the title of the " United Company of Merchants trading to the East," the indenture of which passed the Great Seal on the 22nd of July, 1702. On the completion of this union...