In 1680 the Honourable East India Company was importing no less than fourteen per cent of England's total imports by value and was paying an annual dividend of twenty per cent on its stock as well as being extremely profitable for its individual employees.
一六八○年代英屬東印度公司的東方貿易總值，佔全英進口總額的百分之十四，其中百分之廿的紅利分享股票投資人，還有餘利犒賞員工。