STEELYARD, MERCHANTS OF THE

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STEELYARD, MERCHANTS OF THE , Hahse merchants who settled in London in 1250 at the steelyard on the river-side, near Cosin Lane, now Irenbridge Wharf.

Henry

HENRY
HENRY (1129-1195)
HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G.
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- HEIM, ALBERT VON ST GALLEN (1849- )
- HEIM, FRANCOIS JOSEPH (1787-1865)
, the Eng.
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- HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
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- EDWARD
LAMSON (1841– )
HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
HENRY,
PATRICK
- PATRICK, SIMON (1626–1707)
- PATRICK, ST
(1736–1799)
HENRY, PRINCE OF
BATTENBERG
- BATTENBERG
(1858-1896)
HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

III. in 1259, at the request of his brother Richard of

Cornwall

CORNWALL

, king of the Romans, conferred on. them important privileges, which were confirmed by Edward I. It was chiefly through their enterprise that the early trade of London was developed, and they continued to flourish till, on the complaint of the Merchant Adventurers in the reign of Edward VI., they were deprived of their privileges. Though Hamburg and Lubeck sent ambassadors to intercede for them, they were not reinstated in their monopolies, but they succeeded in maintaining a footing in London till expelled by Elizabeth in 1597. Their beautiful guildhall in Thames Street, adorned with allegorical pictures by Holbein, and de-scribed by Stow, was made a naval storehouse: The land and buildings still remained the property of the Hanseatic League, and were subsequently let to merchants for business purposes. Destroyed in the

Great

GREAT

Fire of 1666 they were rebuilt as

ware

WARE

-houses, and were finally sold to the

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

-Eastern Railway Company in 1852 by the Hanseatic towns, Lubeck, Bremen and
Hamburg. The site is now occupied by Cannon Street railway station.
See Lappenburg, Urkundliche Geschichte des hansischenStahlhofes zu London (Hamburg, 1851); Stow, Survey of London (1598); Pauli, Pictures, of Old, London (1851) ; Ehrenberg, Hamburg and England im Zeitalter der Konigin Elizabeth (Jena, 1896).

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