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 300 INDEX Ninth to twelfth voyages of, 15 Fits out another expedition to open up trade between India and the Spice Islands, 20 Second Joint Stock of, composed largely of nobility, 88 Opens new contribution for a second four years, 88 Second subscription to, amounts to £1,629,040, 88 Charter of, never safe from court in- trigues, 89 Appeals for state support in 1618, 90 Dissatisfaction of, with fortress clause in the treaty of 1619, 95 Unfortunate position of Asiatic settle- ments of the, 164-165 Fortunes of, reach low ebb in 1628, 164-165 Defence of the policy of, 167-168 Appeals to Parliament in 1628, 169 Suffers from royal aggression, 169, 173 Privileges accorded to, by the Crown, 173-174 Taxes on, and loans of, to the Crown, 174 Treatment of, at the hands of Charles I, 175-178, 187-188 Private persons try to break down the monopoly of the, 179 Receiving no redress from Charles, decides to appeal to the House of Commons, 185-189 Petitions Parliament against Courten and Porter, 186 Attempts of, to re-incorporate itself, 188-189 Abolishes seven Indian factories in 1648, 189 Maintained through reign of Charles I by isolated groups of Englishmen, 210 Calls one of its factors to account for the building of Fort St. George, 229 Reorganized by Cromwell in 1657- 1658, 246, 247 Passes from mediaeval to modern basis, 252-253 Three cyclic dates of, 253 Disloyalty of captains of, 254 Struggles of, to maintain its trade, 257-258 Held responsible by Indian princes for all depredations committed by the English, 258 Petitions Parliament four times for help against Holland, 259 Loans of, to Cromwell, 263 Unable to meet the demands of Crom- well for ships and money, 263 Forms one Joint Stock with Courten's Association, 266-267 Private members of, permitted to trade independently in 1653-54, 271 Regulations of Parliamentary settle- ment of 1650 regarding, 272 Struggle of members of, lor right of independent trade, 273 Problem as to which of several sets of adventurers really represents the, 274 General Court of, appeals to Cromwell against its Court of Committees in 1656, 275 Settlement of trade of, by Colonel Philip Jones and his colleagues on the basis of a United Joint Stock, 276 Faulty analogy of, with Turkey Com- pany, 277-278 Development of joint stock system of, 279-281 Relation of, to Crown, and business methods of, 280 Threatens to sell its factories, customs, and rights, 281 Freedom of, thrown open to public, 283-284 Cromwell lays basis for modern con- stitution of, 285 Joint Stock, formed in England, 30 Council of Defence clause in treaty of 1619, 94 Council of Seventeen, duties of, 61, 62 Council of State, applied to by three sets of applicants for trade in the East, 264 Licenses private trade to India, 272 Vainly attempts to solve the problems relating to the status and new constitution of the English East India Company, 274-275 Courten, Sir William, intrigues of, against the East India Company, 179 Early life of, 179 Knighted by King James, 180 Patents and licenses granted to, 180 Ships of, plunder a vessel in the Red Sea, 183 Captains of, so outrage Canton magis- trates that the English are declared enemies to the Chinese Empire, 184 Hostility of, to English East India Company, 184 Death of, 185 Courten, William (son of above), ordered to retire from India within three years, 189 Courten's Association, 179 East India Company forms one Joint Stock with, 266-267