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Guilds and Related Organisations in Great Britain and Ireland GUILDS AND RELATED ORGANISATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND A BIBLIOGRAPHY PART III THE CHARTERED COMPANIES THE UNITED KINGDOM - GENERAL MIRACLE PLAYS PERFORMED BY THE GUILDS OTHER BIBLIOGRAPHIES COMPILED BY TOM HOFFMAN © Tom Hoffman DRAFT 7 October 2011 THE CHARTERED COMPANIES The following associations were allied to the guilds, and traded abroad:- The Trading Companies included: The African Companies The Hudson’s Bay Company The East India Company The Levant or Turkey Company The Russia or Muscovy Company The Plantation Companies included: The Darien Company The Massachusetts Bay Company The Newfoundland and Guiana Companies The Plymouth Company The Somers Islands or Bermuda Company The Virginia Company The Administrative Companies included: The Imperial British East Africa Company The Royal Niger Company The British North Borneo Company The British South Africa Company Other Chartered Companies included: The Easterlings of the Still or Steel yard. The Almaines [Germans] belonging to the Hanse or Gild of the Merchants of Almaine. The Merchants of the Staple. The Merchant Adventurers (originally a branch of the Mercers). The Merchants of Elbing, incorporated by Elizabeth I. The African Company (or The Company of Royal Adventurers of England to Africa), incorporated in 1588 by Elizabeth I. The Merchants of East India, incorporated in 1600. The New East India Company, which amalgamated in 1699 with the Merchants of East India to form the United East India Company. The Merchants of Spain, incorporated by Elizabeth I. The Foreign Shipwrights without the Liberties, incorporated in 1612. The New French Merchants Adventurers, whose arms were granted to them in 1616. The Company of French Merchants. The South Sea Company, 1712-1720. The Royal Lustring Company. THE AFRICAN COMPANY OF MERCHANTS or THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO AFRICA Origins and Constitution. A Company of Royal Adventurers trading into Africa was incorporated by Royal Charter granted by Charles II in 1660, which conferred upon the Company the rights of exclusive trade along the entire Africa coast from Sallee to the Cape of Good Hope. Eminent Members. Prince Rupert was the Company’s first Governor. 1. Crooks, J.J. (Compiler) RECORDS RELATING TO THE GOLD COAST SETTLEMENTS FROM 1750 TO 1874. Browne and Nolan, Dublin 1923; 2. Crooks, J.J. (Compiler) RECORDS RELATING TO THE GOLD COAST SETTLEMENTS FROM 1750 TO 1874. Cass, London 1973; xii+557 pages. [GL: S 966/7] 3. Jenkinson, H. THE RECORDS OF THE ENGLISH AFRICAN COMPANIES. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society; [3rd] Volume VI, p. 185. [SofA Lib.] 4. Markham, Clements R. (Editor) THE HAWKINS VOYAGES. Hakluyt Society 1878; 5. Zook, George Frederick THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO AFRICA. The Journal of Negro History, April 1919; Volume IV, No. 2. 6. Zook, George Frederick THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO AFRICA. New Era Prinitng Company Press, 1919 7. *Zook, George Fredericck THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO AFRICA. 1919. Reprinted Negro Universities Press, New York, 1969; v+105 pages. ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY 8. [Anon] ENGAGEMENT OF MEMBERS REGARDING THEIR SUBSCRIPTIONS. Signed Ellis Leighton. London [1662]; 1 page. [GL: B’side 12.11] 9. [Anon] CHARLES II, KING OF ENGLAND [1630-1685] BY THE KING. A PROCLAMATION...WHEREAS IT IS FOUND...THAT TRAFFIQUE WITH INFIDELS : (FOR PROTECTION OF THE ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY). London 1674; 2 pages. [GL: Proc 13.60] 10. [Anon] JAMES II, KING OF ENGLAND [1633-1701] BY THE KING, A PROCLAMATION TO PROHIBIT HIS MAJESTIES SUBJECTS TO TRADE WITHIN THE LIMITS ASSIGNED TO THE ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY OF ENGLAND, EXCEPT THOSE OF THE COMPANY. London 1685; [GL: Proc 17.7] 11. [Anon] NOTICE OF ELECTION OF OFFICERS. London 1689; 1 page. [GL: B’side 9.12] 12. [Anon] THE MEMBERS OF THE COURT OF ASSISTANTS OF THE ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY. 1687-1690; [GL: Pam 7770] 13. [Anon] THE AFRICAN COMPANIES CONSIDERATIONS ON THE LATE ACT OF PARLIAMENT FOR SETTLING THE TRADE TO AFRICA, ANSWER’D PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH. London [1707]; 1 page. [GL: B’side 4.21] 14. [Anon] SOME OBSERVATIONS ON EXTRACTS TAKEN OUT OF THE REPORT FROM THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS FOR TRADE AND PLANTATIONS. THE CASE OF THE AFRICAN COMPANY. 1708; 4 pages. [GL: B’side 17.126] 15. [Anon] A LETTER TO A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT CONCERNING THE AFRICAN TRADE. 1709; 3 pages, [GL: B’side 16.58] [Being an attack on the Royal African Company.] 16. [Anon] REASONS AGAINST ESTABLISHING AN AFRICAN COMPANY AT LONDON : EXCLUSIVE TO THE PLANTATIONS AND ALL THE OUT-PORTS AND OTHER SUBJECTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 1711; 2 PAGES. [gl: b’SIDE 17.77] 17. [Anon] THE AFRICAN COMPANY’S ACCOUNT OF THE EXPORTS FOR THE AFRICAN TRADE PROV’D TO BE WRONG STATED AND ERRONEOUS. [1712]; 2 pages. [GL: B’side 17.78] 18. [Anon] EXTRACT OUT OF THE REPORT OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF TRADE : LAID BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN 1708/9 SETTING FORTH THE FICTIOUS AND REAL ACCOUNTS OF THE AFRICAN COMPANY FOR THE TEN PER CENT DUTY. 1713; 2 pages. [GL: B’side 17.79] 19. [Anon] AN ACT FOR EXTENDING AND IMPROVING THE TRADE TO AFRICA TO INQUIRE INTO THE CLAIMS OF CERTAIN CREDITORS OF THE ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY THEREIN MENTIONED, AND FOR THE RELIEF OF DAVID CRICHTON; AND FOR RESTRAINING THE SAID COMPANY FROM DISPOSING OF SUCH OF THEIR EFFECTS AS ARE THEREIN MENTIONED; AND FOR STAYING AALL SUITS FOR MONEY DUE FROM, OR ON THE ACCOUNT OF THE SAID COMPANY, FOR THE TIME THEREIN MENTIONED. London 1751; 20. Coke, Roger REFLECTIONS UPON THE EAST-INDY AND ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANIES, WITH ANIMADVERSIONS, CONCERNING THE NATURALIZATION OF FOREIGNERS. London 1695; 25 pages. [GL: A 9.4 no 3 in 7] 21. Davies, K.G. THE ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY. Longmans Green,London 1957; ix+390 pages. [GL: L 66/4] 22. *Grant, Douglas THE FORTUNATE SLAVE : AN ILLUSTRATION OF AFRICAN SLAVERY IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Oxford University Press 1968; xvi+231 pages. Illustrated. [GL: B/J 62] 23. Meredith, Henry AN ACCOUNT OF THE GOLD COAST OF AFRICA, WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN COMPANY. Longman 1812; viii+264 pages. 24. Meredith, Henry AN ACCOUNT OF THE GOLD COAST OF AFRICA, WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN COMPANY Cass Library of African Studies, Travels and Narratives No. 20. Facsimile Reprint. Cass, London 1967; viii+264 pages. [GL: S 916/67] THE IMPERIAL BRITISH EAST AFRICA COMPANY 25. Coupland, R. THE EXPLOITATION OF EAST AFRICA 1856 1856-1890. London 1939; 26. Ingham, Kenneth A HISTORY OF EAST AFRICA. London 1962; 27. McDermott, P.L. BRITISH EAST AFRICA. London 1895; 28. Perham, Margery LUGARD, THE YEARS OF ADVENTURE, 1858-1898. London 1956; 29. Portal, Sir Gerald THE BRITISH MISSION TO UGANDA IN 1893. London 1894; 30. Vere Hodge, E.R. THE IMPERIAL EAST AFRICA COMPANY. London 1960; THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY 31. Hanna, A.J. THE STORY OF THE RHODESIAS AND NYASALAND. London 1965; 32. Lovell, R.I. THE STRUGGLE FOR AFRICA 1875-1899. New York 1934; 33. Malcolm, Douglas O. THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY 1889-1939. 34. Walker, Eric A. A HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA. London 1957; 35. Williams, Basil CECIL RHODES. London 1921; THE AMAZON COMPANY 36. Lorimer, Joyce (Editor) ENGLISH AND IRISH SETTLEMENT ON THE RIVER AMAZON, 1550-1646. Hakluyt Society, London 1989; xxvi+499 pages. [GL: Store 181-183 (Hakluyt s 2nd ser;; 171)] [Includes chapters on English explorations 1553-1508, The Amazon Company, The Guiana Company, English and Irish settlements 1611-1620, and the Irish petition to the Spanish 1630-1633.] THE BARBARY COMPANY 37. *[Anon] DANGERS OF UNREGULATED TRADE TO BARBARY AND REQUEST FOR A MONOPOLY, 1574. In R.H.Tawney and E. Power (Editors): “Tudor Economic Documents”. Longmans, Green and Co, London 1924. Reprinted 1951; Volume 2, pp. 48 38. *[Anon] ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST INCORPORATING THE BARBARY MERCHANTS, [1582]. In R.H.Tawney and E. Power (Editors): “Tudor Economic Documents”. Longmans, Green and Co, London 1924. Reprinted 1951; Volume 2, pp. 58-61. 39. *[Anon] PETITION FOR RELIEF OF MERCHANTS EXCLUDED FROM TRADE BY THE BARBARY COMPANY, [1582]. In R.H.Tawney and E. Power (Editors): “Tudor Economic Documents”. Longmans, Green and Co, London 1924. Reprinted 1951; Volume 2, pp. 64-66. 40. *Willan, T[homas] S[tuart] STUDIES IN ELIZABETHAN FOREIGN TRADE. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1959; ix+349 pages. [Concerns the foreign trade of provincial ports and English trade with Morocco.] [GL: 382/09] 41. Willan, T[homas] S[tuart] STUDIES IN ELIZABETHAN FOREIGN TRADE. 1968; 358 pages. [Includes details about The Barbary Company.] THE CANADA COMPANY 42. [Anon] CHARTER OF INCORPORATION: 19TH AUGUST 1826. London 1826; 45 pages. [GL: Pam 6746] THE CANARY COMPANY 43. Skeel, Caroline A.J. THE CANARY COMPANY, 1665-1667. English Historical Review 1916; Volume 31, pp. 529-544. [GL: (PB) Closed access] THE DARIEN COMPANY or THE COMPANY OF SCOTLAND TRADING TO AFRICA AND THE INDIES or THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO AFRICA Origin. The Company began in 1693 and was dissolved in 1707. 44. Burton, John Hill (Editor) THE DARIEN PAPERS, 1695-1700 Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh 1849; 45. Cundall, Frank THE DARIEN VENTURE. 1927; 46. Hamilton, Alexander NEW ACCOUNT OF THE EAST INDIES. Edited by Sir William Foster. Argonaut Press 47. Hart, Francis Russell THE DISASTER OF DARIEN. Houghton Mifflin, USA 1929; 48. Herries, Walter A DEFENCE OF THE SCOTS ABDICATING DARIEN. 1700; 49. Holland, John A SHORT DISCOURSE ON THE PRESENT TEMPER OF THE NATION WITH RESPECT TO THE INDIAN AND AFRICAN COMPANY AND THE BANK OF SCOTLAND; ALSO OF MR. PATERSON’S PRETENDED FUND OF CREDIT. Edinburgh 1696; 50. Insh, George Pratt THE FOUNDERS OF THE COMPANY OF SCOTLAND. 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