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(EAST INDIA COMPANY.) Charter of the 8th of January, 1753; Being the Twenty-sixth of King George the Second;Establishing Courts of Justice, and a Military Force in the East Indies [caption title]. 50 pages. Folio, 360x252 mm, contemporary calf with East India Company gilt arms on covers, joints partly cracked, sides of top and bottom compartments chipped; contents clean. [London, 1758-72?]
Pages 41-50 contain 2 further charters dated 19 September 1757 and 14 January 1758 granting the Company booty and plunder taken from its enemies. These documents attest to the broad judicial, military, and confiscatory powers of the Company, which had evolved from its founding as a trading enterprise in 1600 into the ruling authority in India by the mid-18th century. OCLC locates only the University of Pennsylvania copy; not in COPAC. Pickett (Bibliography of the East India Company 860) cites this as part of a compilation of charters without a title, conjecturally dated 1772, of which only the British Library copy is known.
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