...second division, and were defeated by a hundred and seventy one votes to a hundred and twenty five.1 The blow was quickly followed up. A few days later...a minority, suffered the motion to pass without a division.2 This memorable vote settled the most important of those constitutional questions which had...

...in 1698, the House of Commons had resolved in January 1694 that ' all the subjects of England have equal right to trade to the East Indies unless prohibited by Act of Parliament,' and a rival Dowgate Association had sprung up ; above all, Montague, First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor...

...second division, and were defeated by a hundred and seventy one votes to a hundred and twenty five.1 The blow was quickly followed up. A few days later...a minority, suffered the motion to pass without a division.2 This memorable vote settled the most important of those constitutional questions which had...

...letter by a resolution of the House of Commons, which had declared that "all subjects of England had an equal right to trade to the East Indies unless prohibited by Act of Parliament." Whilst Pitt was on his voyage to India to take up his appointment, the monopoly of the Eastern trade...

...letter by a resolution of the House of Commons, which had declared that "all subjects of England had an equal right to trade to the East Indies unless prohibited by Act of Parliament." Whilst Pitt was on his voyage to India to take up his appointment, the monopoly of the Eastern trade...

...monopoly. The Whig Parliament of 1693 passed a resolution ' that all the subjects of England have an equal right to trade to the East Indies unless prohibited by Act of Parliament' : and in 1698 a rival company was founded by Act of Parliament and given (in return for a loan of £2,000,000)...

...Parliament itself subscribed to this view and resolved, in 1694, 'that all the subjects of England have equal right to trade to the East Indies, unless prohibited by Act of Parliament '.2 This resolution, which was promptly acted upon by many daring spirits, seriously invalidated the...

...that the House of Commons declared by resolution " That all the subjects of England have equal rights to trade to the East Indies unless prohibited by Act of Parliament," and later in the year an Act was passed allowing the Whig dissentient merchants — the Interlopers —...

...interloper's ship 5 by the Privy Council at the instance of the Company, to declare 'that all Englishmen have equal right to trade to the East Indies unless prohibited by Act of Parliament ( 1 694 ). TheJKing, too, thereupon revoked all the articles in his recent Charter against interlopers....

...proviso to parliamentary grant to East India Company. .."all subjects of England have equal rights to trade to the East Indies unless prohibited by Act of Parliament." 1 Thus in dealing with the Act of Settlement a pupil comments : "It was a real settlement, not only...