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another interesting suggestion. Huggin Lane bears a name which has
always puzzled topographers. Mr. Jacobs would derive it from the
Hagin family, whose house was at the cor¬
ner of Wood Street.
Jewish name in Lon¬
There is one more
don. Jewin Street,
formerly Jewin Gar- den, marks the site
of their burial-place. Meanwhile certain
trading companies were also established.
The model of the
for establishments on
Steelyard was taken
the continent, and
that of Bruges in Flanders was specially
flourishing. These merchant-adventurers
obtained charters, and were ín some cases
bodies of great power and influence. The
East India Company subsisted till very
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lately, and a Borneo and an African com¬
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Queen Elizabeth and her minister Cecil, ably seconded by Gresham,
got rid of the foreign
Steelyard with its
privileges, and kept
trade in the hands of
the citizens, and from
that period the un¬
questionable suprem¬
acy of London in
commerce may be
said to date. In this
policy Elizabeth only
followed the example