檢視早期敕許海外貿易公司的原始碼

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|The Master, Wardens and Commonalty of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol
|Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol
|1552年12月18日
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|Merchants Adventurers of England, <br>for the Discovery of Lands, Territories, Isles, Dominions and Seigniories unknown, <br>and not before their late Adventure or Enterprize, by Seas or Navigation commonly frequented
|Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands
|1555年2月26日
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|Governor, Assistants, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers of England
|Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
|1564年7月18日
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|The President, Assistants, and Fellowship of Merchants of Spain and Portugal
|Spanish Company
|1577年6月8日
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|Governor, Assistants and Fellowship of the Merchants of Eastland
|Eastland Company
|1579年8月17日
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|Governor and company of merchants of the Levant
|Levant Company
|1592年9月11日
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|The Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East-Indies
|East India Company
|1600年12月31日
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|The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London, for the first Colony in Virginia.
|Virginia Company of London
|1609年5月23日
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|The Treasurer and the Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London, and Bristol for the Colony of Plantation in Newfound Land
|Newfoundland Company
|1610年5月2日
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|Governor and Company Of merchants of London trading into France and the Dominions thereof
|French Company
|1611年7月12日
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|The Governor and  Company of the City of London for the Plantacon of the Somer Islands
|Somers Isles Company
|1615年6月29日
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|Governor and Company of Adventurers of London trading into the parts of  Africa
|Guinea Company
|1618年11月16日
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|The Council established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the planting, ruling, and governing of New-England, in America
|Council for New England
|1620年11月3日
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|The Governor and Company of the Mattachusetts Bay in Newe-England
|Massachusetts Bay Company
|1629年3月4日
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|The Governor and Company of Adventurers of the City of Westminster, <br>for the plantation of the Island of Providence, Henrietta, and the adjacent Islands lying upon the Coast of Americ
|Providence Island Company
|1630年12月4日
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|The Company of the Royal Adventurers into Africa
|Royal African Company
|1660年12月18日
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|The Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading into Africa
|Royal African Company
|1663年1月10日
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|The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay
|Hudson's Bay Company
|1670年5月2日
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|The Royal African Company of England
|Royal African Company
|1672年9月27日
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