Perhaps list members can help with the following query. Please copy replies
to the enquirer.
Peter
>Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:25:46 -0500
>To: [log in to unmask] (Peter Claughton)
>From: scott bruce <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: John Becx & Co.
>
>Peter:
>
>What do you know of John Beex/Becx (John Becx) & Co.), the 17th
>century Anglo-Dutch capitalist who underwrote many iron making
>operations on both sides of the Atlantic? The locations of this mines
>and iron works in the UK, for example. Know whether any of his
>correspondence survives?
>
>--scott
>
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