| Notes: | IOR/A/1: Charters of the East India Company with related documents: the 'parchment records' (1600-1947). These consist of legal and other formal documents relating mainly to the rights and privileges of the East India Company (1600-1858). Many are records of key evidential value, being proof of the rights and privileges accorded to the Company by the monarch or by his or her ministers.;Dated '10 William III'. After the first Act of Parliament for regulating the trade to the East Indies was passed, effectively putting the Company's monopoly up for auction, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Montagu, devised an arrangement for the government to borrow £2 million. All those who offered money, whether individuals or corporations, were to be united into a corporation called the General Society and each member of the Society was to be permitted to trade to the East Indies. This document incorporates most of the subscribers to the General Society as a joint-stock company, to be called The English Company, Trading to the East-Indies.See also IOR/A/1/55 and IOR/A/1/58.
AMDigital Reference: IOR/A/1/56.
Reproduction of: Letters Patent of William III granting the incorporation of the English Company, Trading to the East Indies 5 Sep 1698.
The British Library
Description based on online resource (viewed on July 5, 2019).
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