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The correct spelling is hanses. A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Me…
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- 1.A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.
- 2.The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.
- 3.A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.
- 4.The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.
- 5.The guildhall of a Hanse.
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