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A Guild of Merchants was founded in Bristol by the 13th century, and swiftly became active in civic life. It funded John Cabot's voyage of discovery to Newfoundland in 1497. The society in its current form was established by a 1552 Royal Charter from Edward VI granting the society a monopoly on Bristol's sea trade. [3]
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Digitisation undertaken by the Bristol Record Society of an engraving owned by the Society of Merchant Venturers, Bristol. Author: James Millerd and unknown later editors. Permission (Reusing this file) The Society of Merchant Venturers and the Bristol Record Society make the images freely available on a creative commons license (2020). If ...
It used to be accompanied by the Merchants Hall but this was destroyed in the Bristol Blitz of World War II. [6] In 2014 a long lease for the almshouses was signed for £620,000. [7] The plaque on the wall is a poem: "Freed from all storms the tempest and the rage Of billows, here we spend our age. Our weather beaten vessels here repair
The Town of Bristol is a former town in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,538 at the 2000 census—before a portion of the town was incorporated as the Village of Bristol. The remainder of the Town of Bristol was annexed by the Villages of Bristol and Pleasant Prairie effective July 4, 2010, and the town ceased to ...
The merchant adventurers of these towns were separate but affiliated bodies. The Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol was a separate group of investors, chartered by Edward VI in 1552. Under Henry VII, the merchants who were not of London complained about restraint of trade.
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The Society of Merchant Venturers, an organisation of rich merchants in Bristol, wanted to participate in the African slave trade, and after much pressure from them and traders in other English cities, including Liverpool and Hull, the Royal African Company's monopoly over the slave trade was broken in 1698. As soon as it was broken, Bristol ...