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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Tower Street became Little Eastcheap which in turn merged into Candlewick and then Budge Row. Hudson’s business lay here in an imposing building called Muscovy House. The medieval look of the London of 1608 belied the fact that England’s rise to global empire was under way and one of the forces behind that rise lay behind these doors. From the bravado of its formal name – the Merchants Adventurers of England for the Discovery of Lands Territories Iles Dominions and Seigniories Unknown – one might be excused for thinking the Muscovy Company had been founded out of sheer unstoppable exuberance. The original band of merchants and aristocrats who had formed it just over fifty years earlier included many of the most distinguished men then in London – the Lord High Treasurer the Steward of the Queen’s Household the Keeper of the Privy Seal the Lord High Admiral – as well as sundry other knights and gentlemen. But while global exploration the great intellectual and business oppor- tunity of the day had brought them all together no-one considered the undertaking a swashbuckling adventure. (SP)