The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot.
- Arthur Onslow
- Date:
- 1777
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE L I F E O F Sir MORRIS ABBOT. ORRIS ABBOT, the youngeft fon of Mr„ Maurice Abbot, of Guildford, and brother to Robert and George beforementioned, was bred up to trade, and became an eminent merchant in the city of London, but was more remarkably diftin- guifliec], by his applying himfelf to the direction of the affairs of the Eaft-India company, and his ear¬ ned attention to whatever might promote the extern five commerce of this nation, or {Lengthen her fo¬ reign colonies. o In tliis quality, we find him one of the commifiL oners employed in the negotiation and conclufion of a treaty with the Dutch Eaft-India company, by which the Molucca lilands, and the commerce to them, is declared to be two thirds belonging to the Dutch Eaft-India company, and one to the Englifh, This treaty was concluded at London, on the feventh of July, 1619, and ratified by King James* the fixceenth of the fame month, and is as remarka¬ ble a tranfa&ion as any in that reign. It was in confequence of this treaty, and in order to recover the goods of feme Englifh merchants, that Sir Dudley Diggs, and Morris Abbot, were lent over into Holland, in the fucceeding year, 1620, but with what fuccefs does not appear. He was afterwards one of the farmers of the cuftoms, as appears ftom a commiflion granted in 1623, to him and to many other per fans, for adminift- ering](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30508605_0177.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
