. London . - THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. CORNHILL with statues of kings, behind which were shops rented bymilliners, haberdashers, and sellers of trifles. This was thelower pawnc. .Above, in the upper pawne, there werearmourers, apothecaries, booksellers, goldsmiths, and glass-sellers. The Bourse was opened by Queen Elizabeth onJanuary 23, 1571. She changed its name from the Bourse tothe Royal Exchange. When it was destroyed in the fire of1666, it was observed that all the statues were destroyed,except that of Gresham himself. To illustrate this increase in English trade, we have these TUDOR !29 facts
. London . - THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. CORNHILL with statues of kings, behind which were shops rented bymilliners, haberdashers, and sellers of trifles. This was thelower pawnc. .Above, in the upper pawne, there werearmourers, apothecaries, booksellers, goldsmiths, and glass-sellers. The Bourse was opened by Queen Elizabeth onJanuary 23, 1571. She changed its name from the Bourse tothe Royal Exchange. When it was destroyed in the fire of1666, it was observed that all the statues were destroyed,except that of Gresham himself. To illustrate this increase in English trade, we have these TUDOR !29 facts : In the reign of Edward VI., a time of great decay,there were few Merchant Adventurers and hardly any Englishshins. When Elizabeth began to reign there were no morethaft 317 merchants in all, of whom the Company of Mercersformed ninety-nine. Before her reign it was next to impossi-ble for the city to raise a loan of 10,000/. Before she diedthe city was advancing to the Queen loans of 60,000/. Before. THE STEEL YARD, ETC., THAMES STREET, AFTER THE GREAT FIRE OF l666 her reign the only foreign trade was a venture or two intoRussia; everything came across from Antwerp and her reign the foreign trade was developed in an amaz-ing manner. New commodities were exported, as beer andsea coal, a great many new things were introduced—newtrades, new luxuries. For instance, apricots, turkeys, hops,tobacco were brought over and planted and naturalised. Fans, 23o LONDON ladies wigs, fine knives, pins, needles, earthen fire-pots, silkand crystal buttons, shoe-buckles, glass-making, nails, paper,were made in tins country for the first time. The MerchantAdventurers, who had been incorporated under Edward I.,obtained fresh rights and larger powers; they obtained theabolition of the privileges enjoyed for three hundred years bythe Hanseatic merchant; they established courts at Antwerp,Dordrecht, and Hamburg; they had houses at York, Hull,and Newcastle. Further, when we read that t
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