The case of the late Indian and African Company of Scotland, with other part-owners of the ships Speedwell and Annandale trading to India..
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1711
Place of publication: Edinburgh?]
Language: eng
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Broadsides; Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies; East India Company; Speedwell (Ship); Annandale (Ship : 1704)
Other titles: Case of the late Indian and African Company of Scotland, with other part-owners of the ships Speedwell and Annandale trading to India
Notes: Date of publication of 1711 supplied by Hanson.

Date of publication of 1707 erroneously given by Scott.

Place of publication suggested by the National Library of Scotland.

This petition was read in the House of Commons on March 2nd 1710/11, and referred to the committee appointed to consider William Paterson's petition.

After the failure of the Darien colony the Company of Scotland struggled on, attempting to establish trading links in Africa and the Far East. However, the capture of the company's ships, Speedwell and Annandale, at the instigation of the East India Company in 1704 led to an outbreak of ill feeling in Scotland towards England.

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature, 4692

Scott, J. Bibliography of printed documents and books relating to the Darien company, 199

Hanson, L. Contemporary printed sources for British and Irish economic history, 1701-1750, 1379

English short title catalogue, T189061

Purchase; 1945 29712