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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... North - West Passage . But the end was failure , and the last joint trace of the parties occurs in a Chancery suit wherein " Fraunces Fernandus Esquier " complains that he is imprisoned by Hugh Elyot for a debt of £ 100.1 Henry VII ...
... North - West Passage . But the end was failure , and the last joint trace of the parties occurs in a Chancery suit wherein " Fraunces Fernandus Esquier " complains that he is imprisoned by Hugh Elyot for a debt of £ 100.1 Henry VII ...
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... North Sea trades made no great advance . English merchants in the Baltic and Germany remained subordinate to the Hansa which also competed keenly with them in the Netherlands . The western trades show a much more interesting record ...
... North Sea trades made no great advance . English merchants in the Baltic and Germany remained subordinate to the Hansa which also competed keenly with them in the Netherlands . The western trades show a much more interesting record ...
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... NORTH - EAST PASSAGE 39 beleaguered Calais . The cause may have been mere incompetence , but is more likely to have been an unavoidable shortage of neces- saries ... north - easterly point known to the men of The North-East Passage.
... NORTH - EAST PASSAGE 39 beleaguered Calais . The cause may have been mere incompetence , but is more likely to have been an unavoidable shortage of neces- saries ... north - easterly point known to the men of The North-East Passage.
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... north - east to the north - west , influenced probably by French stories of a water passage beyond the cod fisheries . He prayed for the grant of a licence for an enterprise to discover a passage to Cathay and all other rich parts of ...
... north - east to the north - west , influenced probably by French stories of a water passage beyond the cod fisheries . He prayed for the grant of a licence for an enterprise to discover a passage to Cathay and all other rich parts of ...
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... north , to avoid danger to the old - established trade to Andalusia . The new attempt was financed and led by men who had been connected with the Guinea trade , among whom Martin Frobisher was prominent . He was a nephew of Sir John ...
... north , to avoid danger to the old - established trade to Andalusia . The new attempt was financed and led by men who had been connected with the Guinea trade , among whom Martin Frobisher was prominent . He was a nephew of Sir John ...
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