The Company of Royal Adventurers into Africa (Guinea Company)
An English company chartered in January 1663 to trade on the coast of Africa, above all in gold and enslaved people, whom it sold in the American colonies and the West Indies. It was refounded in 1672 as the Royal African Company.
A diary for every day of the year
Samuel Pepys, from his diary (London, 1660–1669), in the edition of Henry B. Wheatley (London, 1893–99) · January 1660 to June 1669, written day by day (modern calendar)
Up betimes, and though it was a most foggy morning, and cold, yet with a gally down to Eriffe, several times being at a loss whither we went. There I mustered two ships of the King’s, lent by him to the Guiny Company, which are manned better than ours at far less wages.
Up early, and though it was a very foggy morning, and cold, [I went] down to Erith in a galley, not knowing several times where we were going. There I mustered two of the King’s ships, lent by him to the Guinea Company, which are better manned than ours at far lower wages.