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responsibility of deciding on the rules for new directors, each new director having to put up the sum of £2000, without interest, as well as being approved by the existing directors. This new company could not compete with the old East India
Company as powerful directors of the original company took out shares in the new company, in the sum of £315,000, giving them influence on the new company's board. The new company could only gain a small percentage of the trade carried out and, in 1708, finally merged with the original East India Company, in a tripartite indenture involving both the companies and the state.
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In 1694, Parliament passed a law stating that any
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In 1698, George White was one of the leading forces behind the setting up of a rival company known as the "English
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In 1681, the Dutch merchant Van Vliet accused White of lending
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Between 1687 and 1691, while living in London, White vigorously opposed the East India
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It is believed that White had a coloured servant who served Mr. Strangh and Mr. Yale in 1683 on their trip to India. They had been sent from London with letters of authority to investigate the company's affairs in India. They had the power to allow it to continue or order it to cease trading.
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as his assistant. Phaulkon had left his native country at a young age and had worked on several ships of different nationalities. He was a gifted linguist and very bright. White and
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privately. It is thought that George White gleaned this information from the company's accounts as he would have had access to them as was his right as a shareholder, a right the East India Company on numerous occasions tried to restrict.
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George White and Thomas Povey, who was the brother of Mary Povey the late wife of Samuel White, were appointed Samuel White's attorney and guardian to his two daughters, Mary White (b. 1680, d. 1716) "who married
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sent three armed Englishmen to protect him. This astonished White, as he was quite happy and felt that he could handle the situation. The Company paid the debts owed and his stocks were released.
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to Parliament answering an earlier paper written by Francis Davenport and the East India Company; this case was settled by the Company out of court.
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