item: #1 of 13
          id: A12330
      author: Smethwike, Thomas.
       title: A motion to the East India Company by Thomas Smethwike (an adventurer with them) vpon the reasons following
        date: None
       words: 1617
      flesch: 68
     summary: Proposal to reduce the time ships delay in India waiting for return cargo. Great Britain -- Commerce -- India.
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: A27460
      author: Berkeley, George Berkeley, Earl of, 1628-1698.
       title: A speech made by the Right Honourable George Earl of Berkeley to the Levant company at their annual election, February ix, MDCLXXX His Lordship being governour of that most loyal society.
        date: 1681.0
       words: 1411
      flesch: 63
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: A37163
      author: Davenant, Charles, 1656-1714.
       title: An essay on the East-India-trade by the author of The essay upon wayes and means.
        date: 1696.0
       words: 11802
      flesch: 56
     summary: Should we quit the Hold we have in India , and abandon the Traffick , Our Neighbours the Dutch will undoubtedly engross the whole : And if to their Naval Strength in Europe , such a Foreign Strength and Wealth be added , England must hereafter be contented to Trade by their Protection , and under their Banners . Some of Our Gentry have been for many Years of Opinion , That the Intire Welfare of England depends upon the High Price of Wooll , as thinking thereby to Advance their Rents , but this proceeds from the Narrow Mind , and Short View of such , who have all along more regarded the Private Interest of Land , than the Concerns of Trade , which are full as Important , and without which , Land will soon be of little Value .
    keywords: consumption; east; england; goods; home; india; kingdom; manufactures; nation; people; trade; traffick; woollen
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: A41166
      author: Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.
       title: The East-India-trade a most profitable trade to the kingdom. And best secured and improved in a company, and a joint-stock. Represented in a letter written upon the occasion of two letters lately published, insinuating the contrary.
        date: 1677.0
       words: 12199
      flesch: 45
     summary: Trade yet more advantageous to the Kingdom in some respects , than at present it is , are chiefly the Trades to China and Iapan ; at which places were our Trade once well setled , in all likelyhood more considerable quantities of our Woollen-Manufactures might be there vended , and from thence in return thereof , both Gold , Silver , and Copper might be brought to supply at least ( in a great measure ) the Trade in other parts of India ; without carrying out so much from Europe : He would have the English Merchant to buy dear , and sell cheap ; to buy Cloth dear of the Clothier , and sell Callico cheap to the Linnen-Draper ; and he desires a freedom of Trade , that the multiplicity of Buyers for the one , and of Sellers for the other , might effect it ; and thereby ( as he would have us believe ) the Kingdom would be enriched ;
    keywords: commodities; company; east; england; english; goods; india; kingdom; persons; pounds; stock; trade
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: A48185
      author: Fair merchant.
       title: A letter to a member of Parliament concerning clandestine trade. Shewing how far the evil practices at the custom-house at London tend to the encouragement of such a trade. Written by a Fair Merchant.
        date: 1700.0
       words: 3648
      flesch: 54
     summary: It would be worth enquiry to know to whom the Mony has been paid , and what Sums they have levied upon themselves since the Commencement of the Combination ; and such a Power as that of your House may command the original Instrument of Combination to be laid before you , which I understand is yet in being . EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).
    keywords: combination; house; king; officers; tcp; text; time; trade
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: A80255
      author: Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.
       title: Advertisement. Edinburgh, the 9th of July 1696.
        date: 1696.0
       words: 880
      flesch: 63
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 172216)
    keywords: eebo; tcp; text
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: A80977
      author: England and Wales. Council of State.
       title: By the Protector. A proclamation concerning the residence of the merchant-adventurers of England, at the city of Dordrecht, and for settling the staple there.
        date: 1656.0
       words: 1558
      flesch: 53
     summary: It is ( amongst other things ) ordained , that the fellowship of Merchants-adventurers of England shall continue and be a Corporation , and shall have power to levy monies on the members of their Corporation , and their goods , for their necessary charge and maintenance of their government ; And that no person shall trade into those parts limited by their Incorporations , but such as are free of that Corporation , upon forfeiture of their goods ; Provided that the said fellowship shall not exclude any person from his freedome and admission into the said fellowship which shall desire it by way of redemption ( if such person by their custome be capable thereof , and hath been bred a Merchant ) and shall pay one hundred pounds for the same , if he be free and an inhabitant of the City of London , and trade from that Port : Or fifty pounds if he be not free , and no inhabitant of the said City , and trade not from thence ; the same Ordinance to remain in full force , untill a Bill or Act shal be prepared and passed in Parlament for the further setling , and full confirming of the priviledges to the said fellowship according to the intent and true meaning of the said Ordinance . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80977 of text R211796 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.20[26]).
    keywords: city; england; fellowship; text
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: A80989
      author: Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
       title: By the Protector. A proclamation of assistance to the merchant adventurers of England, for the better carrying on of their trade, and for punishing of offenders against the same.
        date: 1658.0
       words: 1284
      flesch: 52
     summary: A proclamation of assistance to the merchant adventurers of England, for the better carrying on of their trade, and for pu England and Wales. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80989 of text R211091 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[8]).
    keywords: england; protector; text; trade
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: A92659
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: Proclamation anent petitoning [sic].
        date: 1699.0
       words: 1454
      flesch: 58
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A92659) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 153559)
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: B02302
      author: Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.
       title: At a meeting of the committee appointed by the subscribers to the Joynt-Stock of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies, to prepare and lay down the rules and consititions of the said company.
        date: 1696.0
       words: 974
      flesch: 60
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174878)
    keywords: company; tcp; text
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: B02303
      author: Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.
       title: At a meeting of the Council-general of the Company of Scotland, trading to Africa and the Indies. Holden at Edinburgh, the 5th day of September, 1698.
        date: 1698.0
       words: 1325
      flesch: 62
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175806) In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.
    keywords: company; scotland; tcp; text
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: B02304
      author: Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.
       title: At Edinburgh, the 15 of June, 1696. Published by order of the said court, Rod. Mackenzie, Sec:ry.
        date: 1696.0
       words: 1081
      flesch: 62
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02304) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174879)
    keywords: company; eebo; tcp; text
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: B02305
      author: Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.
       title: At Edinburgh, the 9th day of July, 1696. The Court of Directors of The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies ...
        date: 1696.0
       words: 1103
      flesch: 61
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175807) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2751:26) At Edinburgh, the 9th day of July, 1696. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: company; scotland; tcp; text
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