The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . !258 The HISTORYc/LONDON. Vol. II. CafeRoy- Afric. Comp. Ibid. Ibid. Africa?i Company. The firft Eng-lifh Ships fent toAfrica on the Ac-count of Com-merce was aboutthe Year 1553,fromwhichTimethe Trade to thatCountry was car-ried on byprivateHands till theYear 158 8, whenQueen Elizabeth,by her LettersPatent, erected a Company for the more effec-tual carrying on the faid Trade, which at thatTime was only lor Gold, Elephants Teeth andMalaquetta ; for the Englijh, having then no Set-tlement in America, had no Occaf
The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . !258 The HISTORYc/LONDON. Vol. II. CafeRoy- Afric. Comp. Ibid. Ibid. Africa?i Company. The firft Eng-lifh Ships fent toAfrica on the Ac-count of Com-merce was aboutthe Year 1553,fromwhichTimethe Trade to thatCountry was car-ried on byprivateHands till theYear 158 8, whenQueen Elizabeth,by her LettersPatent, erected a Company for the more effec-tual carrying on the faid Trade, which at thatTime was only lor Gold, Elephants Teeth andMalaquetta ; for the Englijh, having then no Set-tlement in America, had no Occafion for Company was greatly encouraged in theReigns of James and Charles the Firft; but theDutch, in the Year 1637, having taken diversForts on the Coaits of Africa from the Portuguefe,committed great Depradations on the Englijh, tooblige them to leave off trading to thole the Second, the better to enable his Sub-jects- to carry on the faid Trade againft the un-juft Pretenfions and Encroachments of thefe New-comers, by his Letters Patent of the 10th ofJanuary, Anno 1662, incorporated a Body of Mer-chants by the Appellat
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