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derivatives, 276; leverage and, 196; pamphlet recommendations for, 74;
London market trading in, 242; petitions, 61–65; price hike, from
trading in, 238, 239 1633–1643, 111–16; profit sharing,
Deutz, Joseph, 193; call option of, 44; shareholders’ policy setting, 13;
194–96; house of, 138; options use, share register of, 11; States General
192, 194–95 charter for, 9, 10, 12, 13–14, 153;
Dias Henriques, Rodrigo, 151, 194; ten-year account of, 15, 23, 37, 38,
foreign contacts of, 159–60; 45. See also Amsterdam chamber;
information advantage of, 160; Delft chamber; Enkhuizen chamber;
letters of, 159; share trading of, 162; Hoorn chamber; Lords Seventeen;
on trading clubs, 172; unfulfilled Middelburg chamber; Rotterdam
forward contracts by, 208–9 chamber; VOC share price; VOC
directorships, of VOC: at East India shares
House, 80–81; Geurts lawsuit Dutch Republic: boom in, 243; economic
against, 86–90; personal finance of boom of 1640s, 115; England and
existing shares, 88–89; share trading France war with, 157, 184–86, 206,
by, 63, 89, 110, 153, 240; share 217–18; honor in, 168; Japan alliance
transfer procedure change, 89; three with, 43; Portugal truce (1641) with,
year terms for, 75 128; share trading negative impact
Disaster Year (1672), 178, 204–7 on, 238–39; Spain truce with, 39, 40;
dividend, 32, 276; EIC, English payment speculation and gambling in, 115–16;
of, 44; as information source, 151– tax levy by, 132. See also Supreme
54; Lords Seventeen and, 23, 26, 49, Court of the Republic
67, 143–46, 151, 152, 205; paid in Dutch Revolt, 37–38, 133
spice, 44–50; payment in kind, 152; Dutch zone, in Brazil, 128
recording of, 26, 27; stabilization of,
in 1644, 152; VOC first payment of, East India Company (EIC), 70; dividend
46, 67; VOC policy of, 113; VOC payment by, 44; short period
reduction during and after war, 152. investments in, 237
See also ex-dividend East India House, 18–21, 20, 46, 56,
Downing, George, 206 57; dividend payment and, 152; de
Duarte, Raphael, 190, 202–3, 207 Keyser design of, 19; location of,
Dutch East India Company (VOC): 106, 107; trade in shares and, 27;
administration of, 21–27; angry VOC directors at, 80–81
shareholders, 51–74; capital Edict of Expulsion, 125
subscription of, 12–13; chambers of, Egmond aan den Hoef, 81
12–13, 155; charter articles, 14–15; Egmont, Maria van, 16, 18
dividend paid in spice, 44–50; EIC. See East India Company
dividend policy, 113; dividend Elisa Abrabanel, Samuel de, 194
reduction during and after war, 152; Empereur, Antoine l’, 35, 133–34, 141,
fifty year renewal of charter request, 163–64; background of, 37–38;
71; first dividend payment, 46, 67; correspondence of, 37, 39, 41, 47–
incorporation of, 9; ledgers of, 24, 48; initial share trading by, 35–37; as
25; liquidation of, 48–49, 68; le merchant, 38; share sale by, 50
Maire as founder of, 51; le Maire England: Catholics’ power in, 214–15;
vs., 53–56; military operations, war with Dutch Republic, 157, 184,
68–69, 74, 112; monopoly of, 10, 206, 217–18; William III’s invasion
12; van Os as director of, 7–8; of, 178, 214–15, 220–24
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