He blamed Robert Cecil, Chief Minister of State, for the Queen's disfavour and wanted him and his supporters removed from power. In 1773, the British government passed the Regulating Act to rein in the company. The company’s possessions in India were subsequently managed by a British governor general, and it gradually lost political and economic autonomy. The parliamentary acts of 1813 ended the East India Company’s trade monopoly, and in 1834 it was transformed into a managing agency for the British government of India. There are mini biographies with bibliographic references for members of Parliament under Elizabeth in "History of Parliament: House of Commons", Hasler (ed). I am not sure if monopolies are discussed in either of these bios.

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Books associated with Trading Places – the East India Company and Asia 1600–1834, an Exhibition". Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Bowen, H. V. (1991). Revenue and Reform: The Indian Problem in British Politics, 1757–1773. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-40316-0. Broadberry, Stephen; Gupta, Bishnupriya. "The Rise, Organization, and Institutional Framework of Factor Markets". International Institute of Social history. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018 . Retrieved 7 August 2018.

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At the Battle of Pulo Aura, which was probably the company's most notable naval victory, Nathaniel Dance, Commodore of a convoy of Indiamen and sailing aboard the Warley, led several Indiamen in a skirmish with a French squadron, driving them off. Some six years earlier, on 28 January 1797, five Indiamen, Woodford, under Captain Charles Lennox, Taunton-Castle, Captain Edward Studd, Canton, Captain Abel Vyvyan, Boddam, Captain George Palmer, and Ocean, Captain John Christian Lochner, had encountered Admiral de Sercey and his squadron of frigates. On this occasion the Indiamen succeeded in bluffing their way to safety, and without any shots even being fired. Lastly, on 15 June 1795, General Goddard played a large role in the capture of seven Dutch East Indiamen off St Helena. a b c Shaw, John (1887). Charters Relating to the East India Company - From 1600 to 1761. Chennai: R. Hill, Government of Madras (British India). p.1 . Retrieved 29 May 2022. Collins, G. M. (2019). "The Limits of Mercantile Administration: Adam Smith and Edmund Burke on Britain's East India Company" Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 41(3), 369–392.

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Anderson, Ross (2014). "New source for EIC vessel and crew lost on the Western Australian coast". The Great Circle. Australian Association for Maritime History. 36 (1): 33–38. ISSN 0156-8698. JSTOR 24583017. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021 . Retrieved 5 August 2021. The company eventually came to rule large areas of India, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions. Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey and lasted until 1858. Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India in the form of the new British Raj. Pyne, William Henry (1904) [1808]. The Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature. Vol.2. London: Methuen. p. 159. The Queen forgave Essex, however, as she always did, and gave him full command of the English fleet upon his return. The East India Company had also been granted competitive advantages over colonial American tea importers to sell tea from its colonies in Asia in American colonies. This led to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 in which protesters boarded British ships and threw the tea overboard. When protesters successfully prevented the unloading of tea in three other colonies and in Boston, Governor Thomas Hutchinson of the Province of Massachusetts Bay refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain. This was one of the incidents which led to the American Revolution and independence of the American colonies. [84]By the Treaty of Paris, France regained the five establishments captured by the British during the war ( Pondichéry, Mahe, Karaikal, Yanam and Chandernagar) but was prevented from erecting fortifications and keeping troops in Bengal (art. XI). Elsewhere in India, the French were to remain a military threat, particularly during the War of American Independence, and up to the capture of Pondichéry in 1793 at the outset of the French Revolutionary Wars without any military presence. Although these small outposts remained French possessions for the next two hundred years, French ambitions on Indian territories were effectively laid to rest, thus eliminating a major source of economic competition for the company. [ citation needed] Initially, the company struggled in the spice trade because of competition from the well-established Dutch East India Company. The English company opened a factory in Bantam on Java on its first voyage, and imports of pepper from Java remained an important part of the company's trade for twenty years. The Bantam factory closed in 1683. Forrest, Denys Mostyn (1982). Foursome in St James's: the story of the East India, Devonshire, Sports, and Public Schools Club. London: East India, Devonshire, Sports and Public Schools Club.