Edinburgh, The 17th day of April, 1696, At a General Meeting of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies ...

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The first (of four) resolutions addresses the need for extra capital after the English governments efforts to limit investment from south of the border “every Subscriber by himself or by his or her Deputations … shall give in a list of twenty five Subscribers.” The company foundered after the disastrous Darien scheme. OCLC finds copies at Mass Historical Society, BL, National Lib of Scotland, Newberry Library. Wing, C5587.

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