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148 COMMERCE 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 corner of Wood Street. Jewish name in LonThere 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 a 7 . nel 7 A _ b. aa ök “me Fi 5. ae . — gl is ds a Ma == # u lately, and a Borneo and an African company have recently COURT BUFFET IN STATIONERS HALL bésn establichea 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
