Institution
Providence Island Company
The Providence Island Company was an English joint-stock company chartered in 1630 by Puritan nobles and gentry, including the Earl of Warwick, Lord Saye and Sele and John Pym. It founded a Puritan colony on Providence Island off the coast of Central America, which also became a base for privateering against Spain. The Spanish captured the island in 1641, and the company's network later formed part of the parliamentary opposition to Charles I.
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