...December 1600, a Company, to whom she granted a charter of exclusive privileges,, 'under the title of " The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East-Indies." Their first voyage took place the ensuing year. Capt. James Lancaster sailed with five...

...Company obtained a charter of privileges for fifteen years, constituting it a body corporate and politic, under the name of " The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading to the East Indies." On the 2nd of May, 1601, their first adventure, consisting of five vessels, measuring, collectively,...

...privileges, to last for fifteen years, constituting the adventurers a body politic and corporate, by the name of " The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies." The proprietors, thus incorporated, appointed a committee of twenty-four of their number, and a chairman,...

...merchants ; they were allowed a common seal, with permission to alter it at pleasure, under the title of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, trading to the East Indies. The governor and directors were nominated by the crown, with the special enactment that they should...

...On the 31st of December of the following year, this association obtained a charter, under the title of " The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies," by which the Earl of Cumberland and 215 other persons obtained, for a period of 15 years, the exclusive...

...1600, they were by letters-patent from the Queen constituted a body politic and corporate, by the title of " the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East-Indies." The government of the Company was vested in a committee of twentyfour and a chairman....

...they enjoyed certain privileges, and were formed into n corporation for fifteen years under the title of ' The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies.' Under this charter the management of the company's affairs was intrusted to 24 members of a committee...

...following year, by which it was constituted a corporate body for the term of 15 years, under the title of " the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies;" this charter was extended in 1609, to an indefinite period, liable to be repealed at the pleasure of...

...they enjoyed certain privileges, and were formed into a corporation for fifteen years under the title of 'The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies." Under this charter the management of the company's affairs was intrusted to 24 members of a committee...

...granted for the encouragement of trade and commerce. The associates were made a body politic by the name of "the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, trading to the East Indies." Their affairs were to be managed by a committee of twenty-four, and a chairman, both to be chosen annually....