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STEELYARD, MERCHANTS OF THE

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STEELYARD, MERCHANTS OF THE , Hahse merchants who settled in See also:London in 1250 at the steelyard on the See also:river-See also:side, near See also:Cosin See also:Lane, now Irenbridge See also:Wharf. See also:Henry III. in 1259, at the See also:request of his See also:brother See also:Richard of See also:Cornwall, See also:king of the See also:Romans, conferred on. them important privileges, which were confirmed by See also:Edward I. It was chiefly through their enterprise that the See also:early See also:trade of London was See also:developed, and they continued to flourish till, on the complaint of the See also:Merchant Adventurers in the reign of Edward VI., they were deprived of their privileges. Though See also:Hamburg and See also: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 See also:Elizabeth in 1597. Their beautiful See also:guildhall in See also:Thames See also:Street, adorned with allegorical pictures by See also:Holbein, and de-scribed by See also:Stow, was made a See also:naval storehouse: The See also:land and buildings still remained the See also:property of the Hanseatic See also:League, and were subsequently let to merchants for business purposes. Destroyed in the See also:Great See also:Fire of 1666 they were rebuilt as See also:ware-houses, and were finally sold to the See also:South-Eastern Railway See also:Company in 1852 by the Hanseatic towns, Lubeck, See also:Bremen and Hamburg. The site is now occupied by See also:Cannon Street railway station. See Lappenburg, Urkundliche Geschichte See also:des hansischenStahlhofes zu London (Hamburg, 1851); Stow, Survey of London (1598); See also:Pauli, Pictures, of Old, London (1851) ; See also:Ehrenberg, Hamburg and See also:England See also:im Zeitalter der Konigin Elizabeth (See also:Jena, 1896).

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