A Scheme for a New East India Company.The East India Company was founded in 1600 for the purpose of trading in South-East Asia; but its monopoly in that region soon raised concerns in England about the company's influence. This anonymous treatise invokedclause 41 of the Great Charter 鈥?protecting the free movement of merchants 鈥?to challenge the East India Company's monopoly as 鈥榓bsolutelyagainst the right of the freeborn subject of England; no mean Infringement of Magna Charta'. To ensure that this clause was respected and that trading remained open to all English subjects; the author advocated the creationof a new company which would give wider opportunities to investors. Although a rival company was established in 1698; by 1709 it hadmerged with the existing East India Company; which maintained its monopoly well into the nineteenth century.England; 1690.From: A Scheme or Model for Erecting and Establishing a New National East India Joint Stock or Company; more General and enlarged for the restoring and better carrying on that most important Trade; and for dissolving this present Joint Stock or Company; as being a grievous Monopoly; with some discourse concerning the reasonableness thereof in a Letter to a worthy Membre of Parliament.MSS EUR D300 page 208London; British Library.