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Title page of survey of Manor of Locking, Somerset. 1745.
Edward Colston, London merchant, was born in Bristol and gave much of his fortune to Bristol charities. He was a member of the London-based Royal African Society, which held the monopoly on the trade in ensalved Africans until 1698.

The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.

Date: 1745

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