The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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Page 64
... merchants anxious to benefit by the break - up of the Antwerp system . But the Dutch had a long start , for they had the privileges of denizens in the Spanish dominions . When in November 1576 , during four days , Antwerp was a prey to ...
... merchants anxious to benefit by the break - up of the Antwerp system . But the Dutch had a long start , for they had the privileges of denizens in the Spanish dominions . When in November 1576 , during four days , Antwerp was a prey to ...
Page 154
... merchants who , as a rule , cared little for ideas such as attracted the projectors . In the early days of Virginia ... merchants concerned were directed not towards colonisation , but to the fishing and fur trades to which a resident ...
... merchants who , as a rule , cared little for ideas such as attracted the projectors . In the early days of Virginia ... merchants concerned were directed not towards colonisation , but to the fishing and fur trades to which a resident ...
Page 334
... merchants who supplied most of the cargoes for the Indies secured their foreign goods through alien merchants , French , English , Portuguese , Germans and Dutch , who employed the Spaniards as their factors , and obtained thus a ...
... merchants who supplied most of the cargoes for the Indies secured their foreign goods through alien merchants , French , English , Portuguese , Germans and Dutch , who employed the Spaniards as their factors , and obtained thus a ...
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