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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... ships direct from Madeira and possibly from the Azores , and this may have helped to stimulate in its inhabitants that interest in ocean discovery which they undoubtedly felt.1 There is a record of Bristol ships having made fruitless ...
... ships direct from Madeira and possibly from the Azores , and this may have helped to stimulate in its inhabitants that interest in ocean discovery which they undoubtedly felt.1 There is a record of Bristol ships having made fruitless ...
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... ships got no farther west than Waterford.2 In 1521 Henry himself evolved a plan for the north - west , but he relied upon the merchants to provide most of the capital required . Those of Bristol professed willingness , but the Livery ...
... ships got no farther west than Waterford.2 In 1521 Henry himself evolved a plan for the north - west , but he relied upon the merchants to provide most of the capital required . Those of Bristol professed willingness , but the Livery ...
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... ships still came to England , and a Venetian community long remained in London , but a great deal of the trade with ... ship . The King occasionally ven- tured a warship in the trade . It supplied moreover an incentive to build ...
... ships still came to England , and a Venetian community long remained in London , but a great deal of the trade with ... ship . The King occasionally ven- tured a warship in the trade . It supplied moreover an incentive to build ...
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... ships frequenting the Spanish Canaries and the Portuguese Azores , bringing wines and sugar from the former and woad from the latter.1 Portugal , however , prohibited access to Madeira and the African coast . As the sixteenth century ...
... ships frequenting the Spanish Canaries and the Portuguese Azores , bringing wines and sugar from the former and woad from the latter.1 Portugal , however , prohibited access to Madeira and the African coast . As the sixteenth century ...
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... ship from the West Indies with a cargo worth 30,000 ducats , 1 patently not of French ownership , and many ... ships to the Levant . Great nobles like the Dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk participated in the trade , in association ...
... ship from the West Indies with a cargo worth 30,000 ducats , 1 patently not of French ownership , and many ... ships to the Levant . Great nobles like the Dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk participated in the trade , in association ...
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