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A38638 An essay towards a scheme or model for erecting a National East-India joynt-stock or company more generally diffused and enlarged for the restoring, establishing, and better carrying on that most important trade: fully discoursed in a letter to a Person of quality. 1691 (1691) Wing E3297; ESTC R215599 44,400 34

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