Commercial Relations of England and Portugal
, by Chapman,A.B.W.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415383011 | 0415383013
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/11/2006
Mediaeval | |
Introduction | |
Bibliography and List of Manuscript Sources | p. xv |
The Alliance Between England and Portugal in the Middle Ages | p. 3 |
Help given to early Portuguese kings by English crusaders | |
The beginnings of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance | |
Correspondence of Diniz of Portugal with Edward I. and Edward II | |
Proposed marriages between the English and Portuguese royal houses | |
Political alliance between Edward III. and Fernando, 1373 | |
John of Gaunt and King John I. of Portugal | |
The Treaty of Windsor, 1386 | |
Commercial clauses of the treaty | |
The Anglo-Portuguese alliance in the fifteenth century | |
Early Commercial Relations Between England and Portugal | p. 24 |
First traces of Portuguese merchants in England | |
Their treatment in England | |
Episode of La Cardinale | |
Dealings of Henry III. with Portuguese merchants in Bordeaux | |
Nature of Portugal's trade with England | |
Commercial policy of King Diniz of Portugal | |
Disputes between the Portuguese merchants and Edward I.'s French subjects | |
Settlement by arbitration | |
Recognised position in England of the Portuguese merchants | |
Carta Mercatoria | |
Favourable policy of Edward III. towards Portuguese merchants | |
The English king's treaty with the merchants of Lisbon and Oporto | |
Decision of an English admiral with regard to captured Portuguese merchandise | |
Growth and Development of the Trade Between England and Portugal | p. 46 |
Entry of English merchants into trade with Portugal | |
Prosperity of Lisbon | |
The wine trade | |
Position of English merchants in Portugal | |
Portuguese merchants in England under Edward III. and Richard II | |
The Treaty of Windsor, and the flourishing state of the trade during the years following it | |
Portugal's trade with England, as seen in the "Libelle of English Polycye" | |
English merchants acquire new privileges in Portugal | |
Irish merchants in Portugal | |
Petitions of English merchants to Alfonso V., 1454 and 1458 | |
Commercial effects of the alliance of 1386 | |
Embassy of John II. to Edward IV | |
Embassy of Henry VII. to John II | |
End of the mediaeval period | |
Risks and Vicissitudes of the Trade | p. 75 |
Danger of shipwreck | |
Cases of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants robbed by English subjects | |
Their petitions for compensation or restitution | |
Procedure in such cases | |
Other dangers, piracy, unlawful arrest, detention in English ports | |
Some periods worse than others | |
The war between England and France in Edward III.'s reign | |
Violent treatment of Portuguese merchants in England during Richard II.'s reign, chiefly on account of the debts of the King of Portugal | |
Gascon and English merchants robbed by the Portuguese | |
The French war renewed by Henry V., and the increase in the number of Portuguese merchants plundered by the English during the middle of the fifteenth century | |
Reprisals of the Portuguese on English merchants in Portugal | |
Special letters of exemption granted by the King of Portugal | |
General Conditions of the Anglo-Portuguese Trade About the Middle of the Fifteenth Century | p. 102 |
English and Portuguese ports concerned in the trade | |
Ships | |
Merchants | |
Cargoes | |
Customs duties paid at English ports | |
Town duties | |
Payments made in Portuguese ports | |
Petitions of the English merchants in Lisbon, 1454 and 1458 | |
Malpractices of the Portuguese customs' officials in respect of the tithing of English cloths | |
The door-keeper of the custom-house | |
Negligence and dishonesty of the tithing officers | |
Disputes as to the value of the cloths | |
Difficulty of collecting the money due to English merchants for goods sold in Lisbon | |
Other conditions of the life and trade of the English in Lisbon | |
Modern | |
Colonial Rivalry (1487-1580) | p. 129 |
Relative position of the English and Portuguese nations in the beginning of the sixteenth century | |
Growing estrangement | |
Influence of Spain | |
Effect of the English Reformation | |
Commercial relations | |
Trade through the Low Countries | |
The spice trade | |
Direct trade | |
English export of cloth | |
Barbary trade | |
Sugar | |
English attempts at trade with the Indies and with Africa | |
Portuguese jealousy | |
Action of Philip II | |
Attitude of Elizabeth | |
English piracies and Portuguese retaliation | |
Protest of English merchants against piracy | |
Proposed cloth staple in England | |
English trade with Portugal and with Barbary compared | |
Negotiations with Portugal concerning the African trade | |
Treaty of 1576 | |
The Company of Merchants Trading to Spain and Portugal (1577-1640) | p. 146 |
Union of Spain and Portugal | |
Philip II. and the English in Portugal | |
Influence of commercial interests makes for peace, and of colonial intersts for war | |
Expedition of 1589 | |
Renewed disputes about African trade | |
Trade with the East Indies | |
Treaty of 1604 | |
It ignores colonial trade | |
Effect of treaty on home trade | |
Revival of the Company of Merchants trading to Spain and Portugal | |
Its previous charters (1530 and 1577) and history | |
Relative positions of London and provinces in Company | |
Exclusion of retail traders | |
Quarrel with Chester (1579 et seq.) | |
Effect of union of Spain and Portugal upon the Company | |
Trade during war | |
Commercial stipulations in Treaty of 1604 | |
Grievances of English in Spain and Portugal | |
Renewal of the Charter of the Spanish Company, 1605 | |
Petitions for and against it | |
Nullifying Act of 1606 | |
Movements for renewal of Company | |
Rivalry of mere merchants and manufacturers | |
Decay of trade | |
English traders as intermediaries between Portugal and the Eastland cities | |
Piracy | |
Cloth trade | |
Newfoundland fish trade | |
Decay of Portuguese spice trade | |
Rise of Brazil trade (sugar and tobacco) | |
Difference of Anglo-Portuguese relations in 1580 and 1640 | |
The Lisbon Factory and the Treaty of 1654 (1640-1654) | p. 177 |
Revolt of Portugal from Spain | |
Effects on Anglo-Portuguese relations | |
Treaty of 1642 | |
Colonial Articles | |
Africa, India | |
Brazil trade during the past sixty years | |
Brazil Article in Treaty of 1642 | |
English in Portugal | |
Their privileges | |
Consuls | |
Account of their establishment in Spain and Portugal | |
Articles in Treaty of 1604 concerning English subjects in Spanish territory | |
Complaints of English in Spain | |
Difficulties concerning the powers and payment of consul | |
Attitude of English merchants towards consuls | |
Early patents | |
Articles concerning consuls in Treaty of 1642 | |
Position of English factories in Portugal | |
English Civil War | |
Its effect on Anglo-Portuguese relations | |
Rupert at Lisbon | |
Attitude of English factory | |
War between England and Portugal | |
Negotiations for peace | |
Exaggerated demands of England | |
Treaty of 1654 | |
Articles concerning Brazil trade | |
Brazil Company | |
Articles concerning English in Portugal | |
The Religious Question | |
General commercial stipulations | |
Secret Article | |
Results of Treaty | |
The Methuen Treaty (1654-1703) | p. 205 |
Marriage of Charles II. and Catherine of Braganza | |
Reasons for marriage | |
English support of Portugal against Spain | |
English mediation between Portugal and Holland | |
Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1661 | |
Cession of Bombay and of Tangiers | |
Anglo-Portuguese trade | |
Carrying trade | |
Brazil provisions | |
Wine and Brazil trades | |
Amount of Portuguese imports to England | |
Sugar trade | |
Portuguese currency | |
Competition of Brazil and plantation sugars | |
Clandestine export of bullion from Portugal | |
Portuguese prohibitions of foreign goods | |
Cloth trade in Portugal | |
Seeming separation of English and Portuguese commercial interests | |
England needs the political assistance of Portugal | |
Effect of Anglo-French wars on Anglo-Portuguese wine trade | |
Decadence of cloth trade | |
Negotiations for Methuen Treaty | |
Result of treaty | |
In what respect was it a bribe to Portugal? | |
The English Factories in Portugal and the Brazil Trade (1660-1756) | p. 227 |
Establishment of the English factories by the Treaty of 1654 | |
Hostility of the Portuguese officials | |
Question of the English Conservador | |
The Religious Question | |
Powers of the English consul | |
Internal difficulties of the factories | |
Their constitution | |
Relations of the consuls of Lisbon, Oporto, and Madeira | |
The duties of the factories | |
Their superintendence of general trade | |
The development of trade | |
Exports to Portugal | |
Cloth, provisions | |
Colonial Trade | |
The Newfoundland fish trade | |
Its difficulties | |
Returns from Portugal | |
The Brazil trade | |
English privileges | |
Discovery of the Brazil gold mines | |
Portuguese jealousy | |
Rivalry of Dutch, English, and French | |
Export of bullion | |
The slave trade | |
Its connection with Brazil | |
Rising trade in wine | |
Oporto factory concerned in export of wine | |
Difficulties of English trade | |
Complaints | |
Growing irritation in Portugal against the English factories | |
The Company of the Wines of the Alto Douro (1756-1787) | p. 258 |
Portuguese revolt against English influence | |
Question of brokers | |
Revival of Portuguese industry | |
Effect of the Sumptuary Laws (1749-58) | |
Ministry of Pombal | |
His hostility to the English factories | |
Export of bullion | |
Establishment of the Junta do Commercio | |
Decline of power of the English Conservador | |
Valuation of goods | |
Additional duties | |
State of Anglo-Portuguese trade | |
Establishment of exclusive companies | |
Wine trade | |
Its fluctuations and decay | |
Constitution duties, and powers of the Companies of the Wines of the Alto Douro | |
English complaints | |
Combination of the English merchants against the Company in 1785 | |
Weakness of the Portuguese government | |
Increase of the wine trade | |
Decay of the Oporto factory | |
Effect of the American war on Anglo-Portuguese trade | |
Diminution of exports from England | |
Alienation between England and Portugal | |
Adam Smith on the Methuen Treaty | |
The French Commercial Treaty of 1786 | |
The Brazil Trade (1786-1807) | p. 280 |
Importance of Brazil trade | |
Rise of trade in cotton | |
Diminution of English exports to Portugal | |
Detail of diminution | |
Decrease attributed to Brazil companies | |
Establishment of companies of Grao Para and Maranhao, and of Paraiba and Pernambuco | |
Their constitution | |
English protests | |
Effect of companies on trade | |
Disputes between English and Pombal | |
Portuguese privileges in England | |
Complaints of England in Portugal | |
Consuls' Reports for 1783-85 | |
English influence lessened | |
Balance of trade between England and Portugal changing | |
Balance affected by cotton trade | |
Development of trade | |
Great demand for cotton in 1791 | |
Effect of cotton trade on commerce with Lisbon | |
Balance of trade reversed in 1791 | |
Effect on rate of exchange | |
Effect on Anglo-Portuguese relations | |
French Revolution | |
Attitude of Napoleon | |
Invasion of Portugal | |
English intervention | |
Flight of the House of Braganza to Brazil | |
Anglo-Portuguese convention of 1807 | |
Conclusion | |
Transcripts from Unpublished Documents Bearing on the Commercial Relations Between England and Portugal in the Middle Ages | p. 297 |
Appendix II | |
Treaty Between England and Portugal in 1576 | p. 309 |
Charter to the Merchants Trading to Spain and Portugal | p. 313 |
Patents of the Consuls - General, Illustrating the Growth of the Lisbon Factory | p. 326 |
Documents Illustrating the Trade in Wine | p. 334 |
Index | p. 337 |
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