| 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 '1 Anne'. This document unites the two rival companies, which anyway had significant commonality in ownership: the Company of Merchants (the 'old company') held a stake of £315,000 in the English Company (the 'new company') in the name of its treasurer, John Du Bois, and as a corporate body within the English Company (or General Society) the old company was entitled to continue trading. It was decided that the companies would trade jointly, operating under a joint board of directors, and that the old company would wind itself up within seven years.See also IOR/A/1/59.
AMDigital Reference: IOR/A/1/60.
Reproduction of: Indenture tripartite between Queen Anne, the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies, and the English Company Trading to the East-Indies, for uniting the companies 22 Jul 1702.
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