 | Sir ShafaŹ¼at Ahmad Khan - East Indies - 1923 - 354 pages
...merchants to Elizabeth, praying her to incorporate them into a Company,' for that the trade of the Indies, being so far remote from hence, cannot be traded, but in a joint and a united stock '. 6 It is no doubt true, as pointed out by Hunter 2 Narratives of Voyages, by Rundell;... | |
 | 1880 - 632 pages
...presented to the Council praying for incorporation as a company, ' for that the trade of the Indies, ' being so far remote from hence, cannot be traded but in a ' joint and united stock.' Both the Queen and her Council cordially approved of the enterprise, and no opposition was raised in... | |
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at all. The real evidence which confronted Cromwell lay in the history of the East India Company itself. Even before Elizabeth granted her charter, its founders had declared in 1599 " that the trade of the Indias being so far remote from hence cannot... 
