The English Cyclopaedia, Part 1, Volume 3Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans, 1867 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 231 - Company, and their successors, the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds, in whatsoever latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the straits, commonly called Hudson's Straits, together with all the lands and territories upon the countries, coasts, and confines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks and sounds aforesaid, that are not already actually possessed by or granted to any of our subjects, or possessed by the subjects of...
Page 231 - To BE HELD of us our Heirs and Successors as of our Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 231 - Majesty granted unto the said company and their successors the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds in whatsoever latitude they should be that lay within the entrance of the straits commonly called Hudson's Straits together with all the lands and territories upon the countries, coasts and confines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks and sounds aforesaid...
Page 79 - Ellenborough (qv) as President of the Board of Control for the affairs of India. The great Indian mutiny had not yet been quelled, and it devolved upon S. to frame resolutions and bring in a bill abolishing the East India Company (qv), and transferring their Indian possessions to the direct government of the crown. This duty he performed with consummate ability. The great mutiny was...
Page 333 - History. — The Portuguese reached Java in 1511, and soon after began to form small settlements. The Dutch established themselves at Bantam in 1595, and in 1602 the English erected a factory at the same place, which was the first possession of the English in the East Indies. But the English as well as the Portuguese were soon obliged to give way to the Dutch, who built the town of Batavia, and by degrees enlarged their dominion, until they succeeded, about the middle of the last century, in dividing...
Page 231 - Kent, in free and common soccage, and not in capite or by knight's service ; yielding and paying yearly to us, our heirs and successors, for the same, two elks and two black beavers, whensoever and as often as we, our heirs and successors, shall happen to enter into the said countries, territories and regions hereby granted...
Page 39 - The number and tonnage of vessels entered and cleared at the port during the same year, were 777 vessels of 20,170 tons.
Page 201 - Thus fell the Hindu Rajahs of Bengal, who ruled from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, and from the Indus to the Megna or Brahmaputra. The only Pagan kingdom of importance when the Portuguese appeared was that of the Carnatic or Vijayanagar, concerning which more presently. 3 Varthema (p. 117) calls it " Decan, a very beautiful City of India.
Page 323 - ... 48" N. lat. Between these islands and the continent of Asia is a closed sea, called the Sea of Japan, which at its southern extremity is united to the Tong-Hai, or Eastern Sea of the Chinese, by the Strait of Corea, and at its northern with the Sea of Okhotzk, or Tarakai, by the still unexplored strait which divides the island of Tarakai from Manchuria.
Page 205 - The functions of government were first exercised by the Company in 1624, when authority was given to it by the king to punish its servants abroad either by civil or by martial law, embracing even the power of taking life.