British Linen Company

Manuscript volume containing a contemporary copy of the charter of the British Linen Company, dated 5 Jul 1746.

The British Linen Company was incorporated by Royal Charter on 5 Jul 1746, 'to do everything that may conduce to the promoting and carrying on' the manufacture of linen.

Single item.

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Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

Collection level description.

Manuscript folio.

Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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University of London MS 458 is a list of subscribers to the Company, [1746], bound within a printed copy of Charter of the British Linen Company (Edinburgh, 1746) (Ref: GL 8216).

MS 112 can be found in printed form in the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature.