The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
the London Company
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Sir Christopher Clitherow
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
men again began dying. From the Red Dragon were lost the master’s mate, the preacher, the surgeon and ‘tenne other common men’.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
After frantic preparations Lancaster sailed from Woolwich with four ships in February 1601. The Red Dragon, his flagship, had been bought from the Earl of Cumberland who was at this time the only titled member of the Company.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
soldiers and prostitutes
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
on 3 May came ‘another very sore storme’ which so buffeted the Red Dragon that it caused its rudder to shear off. The rudder sank without trace and there was no replacement.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
van Linschoten had quietly compiled a dossier on the eastern sea routes which he then smuggled back to Europe, an achievement which may constitute the most momentous piece of commercial and maritime espionage ever.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
to take out one of our eyes they will lose both theire own.’