Company of Merchant Adventurers
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The Company of Merchant Adventurers usually refers to the
Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
, founded in 1407 and London's leading guild of overseas merchants.
It may also refer to:
Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
The Company of Merchant Adventurers of London brought together London's leading overseas merchants in a regulated company, in the nature of a guild. Its members' main business was the export of cloth, especially white broadcloth...
, founded in 1407 and London's leading guild of overseas merchants.
It may also refer to:
- Company of Merchant Adventurers to New LandsCompany of Merchant Adventurers to New LandsThe Company of Merchant Adventurers was founded in London, possibly in 1551 by Richard Chancellor, Sebastian Cabot and Sir Hugh Willoughby...
, founded in 1551, which later developed into the Muscovy CompanyMuscovy CompanyThe Muscovy Company , was a trading company chartered in 1555. It was the first major chartered joint stock company, the precursor of the type of business that would soon flourish in England, and became closely associated with such famous names as Henry Hudson and William Baffin...
or the Russia Company. - Company of Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle.
- Company of Merchant Adventurers of YorkYorkYork is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
who, uniquely still own and use their original timber-framed Guildhall completed by 1368, the Merchant Adventurers' HallMerchant Adventurers' HallThe Merchant Adventurers' Hall is a medieval guildhall in the city of York, England, and was one of the most important buildings in the medieval city. The majority of the Hall was built in 1357 by a group of influential men and women who came together to form a religious fraternity called the... - The Bristol equivalent is the Society of Merchant VenturersSociety of Merchant VenturersThe Society of Merchant Venturers is a private entrepreneurial and charitable organisation in the English city of Bristol, which dates back to the 13th century...
, now a charitable organisation.
- The Adventurers ActAdventurers ActThe Adventurers' Act is an Act of the Parliament of England, with the long title "An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the rebels in His Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland".-The main Act:...
of 1642 was so called to encourage London's merchant adventurers to lend money to the Long ParliamentLong ParliamentThe Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...
to pay for the Wars of the Three KingdomsWars of the Three KingdomsThe Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in England, Ireland, and Scotland between 1639 and 1651 after these three countries had come under the "Personal Rule" of the same monarch...
.