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H. George Harris (cricketer, born 1880) Charles Digby Harrod; Sebastian Harvey; Thomas Hayes (Lord Mayor) David Hechstetter; Charles Christian Hennell; William Hewett (Lord Mayor)
Pages in category "17th-century English merchants" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 214 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Merchant Adventurers kept control of their trade and Flanders as their port. Foreign merchants of the Hanseatic League had considerable privileges in English trade and competed with the Merchant Adventurers, but these privileges were revoked by the English government in the mid-16th century. The Merchant Adventurers decided to use other ports.
Costumes of merchants from Brabant and Antwerp, engraving by Abraham de Bruyn, 1577. The English term, merchant comes from the Middle English, marchant, which is derived from Anglo-Norman marchaunt, which itself originated from the Vulgar Latin mercatant or mercatans, formed from present participle of mercatare ('to trade, to traffic or to deal in'). [1]
Medieval English merchants active before about 1485, the start of the Tudor Age and a milestone in the Renaissance. See also: Category:15th-century English businesspeople See also: Category:16th-century English businesspeople
The treaty effectively permitted ships captains to decide what goods were listed on their manifest as "English". [23] That allowed English merchants to evade customs duties since demand from Spanish colonists created a large and extremely profitable black market. [24] In September, Afonso VI of Portugal was deposed in a coup led by his brother ...
Merchants in what is now the United Kingdom, for whom the term 'business people' may not be appropriate Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
Marshall Bennett (merchant) Richard Benyon of Madras; Bird, Savage & Bird; William Wilberforce Bird (merchant) William Bolts; Sir John Boyd, 1st Baronet; William Braund; John Bull (businessman) Peter Burrell (1692–1756)