Providence Island Company

The Providence Company or Providence Island Company was an English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritans including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick in order to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island, off the Spanish Mosquito Coast of what became Nicaragua.

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Providence Island Company
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Trial of Archbishop Laud

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