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Charter granted to the East India Company, 1600

Queen Elizabeth's charter of 31 December 1600 incorporating the London merchants trading to the East Indies.

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  1. 31 Dec 1600 Charter granted to the East India Company, 1600
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  1. History of India, vol. 6, ch. 6: The Constitution of the First English East India Company (W. W. Hunter), History of India, ed. A. V. W. Jackson (text via ibiblio), 1906. Scholarship & press
    by the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies
    It constituted the petitioners into “one body corporate and politick, in deed and in name, by the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies,”
    It vested the management of the company in a governor and twenty-four committeemen, who were to be annually appointed in July
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