G.E. Aylmer

Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England; & Rare Sir William Davenant

G. E. Aylmer reviews two new books on Stuart England

Published December 1 1987

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The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.