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Company of Merchant Adventurers of London

Arms of the Merchant Adventurers

The 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 exchange for a large range of foreign goods.[1][2] It traded in northern European ports, competing with the Hanseatic League. It came to focus on Hamburg.

  1. ^ Robert Brenner, Merchants and revolution: commercial change, political conflict, and London's overseas traders, 1550–1653 (Verso, 2003).
  2. ^ E. Lipson, The Economic History of England (1956), 2;196–269.

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