The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . nd Commodities of the Country. ThisCorporation is under the Direction of a Governor,Deputy Governor and feven AfTiftants, who havea handfome Hall in Fencburch-Jlrcet to tranfacttheir Affairs in. Eliz. Roll. Rujfia Company, Stryp. The RujfiaMerchants wereat firft incorpo-rated by LettersPatent of QueenMary, February 6,Anno i555,whichwere granted todivers Noblemenand Merchants,whereby theywere not onlyimpowerd to car-ry on an exclu-five Trade to all Parts of the Ruffian Empire, butlikewife to
The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . nd Commodities of the Country. ThisCorporation is under the Direction of a Governor,Deputy Governor and feven AfTiftants, who havea handfome Hall in Fencburch-Jlrcet to tranfacttheir Affairs in. Eliz. Roll. Rujfia Company, Stryp. The RujfiaMerchants wereat firft incorpo-rated by LettersPatent of QueenMary, February 6,Anno i555,whichwere granted todivers Noblemenand Merchants,whereby theywere not onlyimpowerd to car-ry on an exclu-five Trade to all Parts of the Ruffian Empire, butlikewife to all fuch Countries as they fhould dif-cover in thofe Northern Parts, which they foonafter did to their great Advantage, viz. TheCherry JJlands, Greenland, Nova Zembla, DaviessStraights and Newfoundland: In Confideration ofthefe valuable Difcoveries, their Privileges wereconfirmed by Parliament; and in the Year 1614,inlarged by King James I. This Company is go-verned by a Governor, four Confuls, and fourand twenty Afliftants, who are annually electedon the firft of Eajiland Company. Thefe Merchants were at firft incorporated byCharter from Queen Elizabeth, Anno 1579. Andthe Factory belonging to the Company being atfirft fettled at Elbing in PruJJia, they received theAppellation of Merchants of Elbing; who, bytheir Charter, were impowered to Trade to Nor-way, Sweedland, Denmark, Poland, Prujfia, andall other Parts of the Baltick Sea, exclufive ofthe City of Narva, previoufiy granted to theRaffia Company. But the fmall River of Elbingproving very incommodious to Navigation, oc-cafioned the Merchants of the Factory to remove,and fettle at Dantzick, Koningsberg, Riga and otherCities of the Baltick. However the grateful Ci-tizens of Elbing are not afhamed to own, that theprefent Splendor and Beauty of their City is owingto the great Commerce formerly carried on thereby the Englifh. This Company, in return for the feveral Sortsof Englifh Commodities exported by them, importal
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