The Port and Trade of London: Historical, Statistical, Local, and GeneralSmith, Elder & Company, 1862 - 507 páginas |
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The Port and Trade of London: Historical, Statistical, Local, and General Charles Capper Sin vista previa disponible - 2023 |
Términos y frases comunes
advantage America amongst amount Apparel appears Brazil Britain British British Columbia canal cargo carried charter chiefly China City cloth coal coasting trade Coffee colony commerce consequence considerable consumption Copper corn Cotton customs docks Dutch duties Earthenware employed England English extent favour fish fishery Flanders foreign merchants France French gold Government guano Hardwares and Cutlery Holland imports increase Indies Indigo iron islands King land legal quays Linen London Bridge London Dock Company machinery Mauritius ment merce millions monopoly nation navigation Norway obtained Parliament period population Port of London Portugal principal privileges probably produce proportion quantity railway reign river river Thames Russia Russia Company sent settlement ships South Spain sugar supply Sweden tallow Thames timber tion tobacco tonnage tons Total towns trade of London treaty West India West India Dock wharves whilst wine wool Woollen Yarn
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Página 85 - Kent, in free and common soccage, and not in capite or by knight's service ; yielding and paying yearly to us, our heirs and successors, for the same, two elks and two black beavers, whensoever and as often as we, our heirs and successors, shall happen to enter into the said countries, territories and regions hereby granted...
Página 162 - Orders of the House, examined the matters to them referred ; and have agreed to the following REPORT...
Página 75 - ... is now, at this day, through evil custom and the toleration thereof, excessively taken by a number of riotous and disorderly persons of mean and base condition...
Página 64 - It constituted the adventurers a body politic and corporate, by the name of ' the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies,' and vested them with the usual privileges and powers.
Página 321 - Hence, except woollens in a very limit & 1 degree, for mantles in the cold season, and metals, on a scale also very limited, to be worked up by their own artisans for the few utensils they need, hardly any of our staple commodities find a vent among the Indians ; the other exports which Europe sends to India being chiefly consumed by the European population there, and some of the descendants of the early Portuguese settlers, all of whom, taken collectively, form but a small body, in view to any question...
Página 85 - Company, should be deemed a betrayer of the rights and liberties of the commons of England, and an infringer of the privileges of the house of commons.
Página 32 - Whittington married his master's daughter, and became a wealthy merchant. He supplied the wedding trousseau of the Princess Blanche, eldest daughter of Henry IV., when she married the son of the King of the Romans, and also the pearls and cloth of gold for the marriage of the Princess Philippa. He became the court banker, and lent large sums of money to our lavish monarchs, especially to the chivalrous Henry V. for carrying on the siege of Harfleur, a siege celebrated by Shakespeare.
Página 165 - On a first cost, ranging on the qualities in most general demand, from 8d. to 10d., in the ports of China, if any reduction can be effected, it might be of advantage to the merchant, but would have no important effect upon the selling prices in England. It is only through the duty, a duty on the average qualities of about 200 per cent, and on the worst qualities of...
Página 6 - Concerning the strangers, who, for the love of God and the salvation of their souls, wish to repair to the thresholds of the blessed apostles, let them travel in peace without any trouble...
Página 95 - An act, for making good deficiencies, and satisfying the public debts ; and for erecting a corporation to carry on a trade to the South Seas ; and for the encouragement of the fishery, and for liberty to trade in unwrought iron with the subjects of Spain ; and to repeal the acts for registering seamen.