Liam Byrne

the colonists, while exporting their tobacco, but it neglected

The first of the vessels paid for with ship money set sail in a nineteen-strong fleet in 1635, by which point the Venetian ambassador was warning of rising tension in Charles’s realm: ‘the situation daily becomes worse and more embittered... unless it ends in some honourable composition there is manifest danger of it resulting in a troublesome rising’.59 He was right.

per cent in duty; the auctioneers got a little commission, and

f the world’s greatest rulers. In death, he divided his empire among three sons, who instantly commenced

Defoe missed the new iron trade’s great entrepreneur, Abraham Darby, busy with his breakthrough mastering the art of smelting iron from abundant coal instead of limited, expensive charcoal.11

route was presented to Parliament; it was revised and passed

Co., Oriental and the Victoria Company, largely through