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From Company of Merchant Adventurers of London was a trading company founded in the City of London in the early 15th century. It brought together leading merchants in a regulated company in the nature of a guild. Its members' main business was exporting cloth, especially white (undyed) broadcloth, in return for a large range of foreign goods.[1][2] In the early seventeenth century, similar grou...
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a charitable organisation in the English city of Bristol.The society can be traced back to a 13th-century guild which funded the voyage of John Cabot to Canada that marked the origins of the British Empire.[1] The society its first Royal Charter in 1552 and for centuries had almost been synonymous with the government of Bristol, especially Bristol Harbour. I...