A new discourse of trade, wherein is recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants. The act of navigation. Naturalization of srangers [sic]. And our woolen manufactures. The ballance of trade. And the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed. Methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed. The reduction of interest of money to 4 l. per centum, is recommended. And some proposals for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies, relating to maritine affairs, and for a law for transferrance of bills of debts, are humbly offered. By Sir Josiah Child.

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  • A new discourse of trade, wherein is recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants. The act of navigation. Naturalization of srangers [sic]. And our woolen manufactures. The ballance of trade. And the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed. Methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed. The reduction of interest of money to 4 l. per centum, is recommended. And some proposals for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies, relating to maritine affairs, and for a law for transferrance of bills of debts, are humbly offered. By Sir Josiah Child.
  • Discourse about trade
  • Small treatise against usury
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Imprint
London: printed and sold by T. Sowle, next door to the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-street, and at the Bible in Leaden-hall-street, near the Market, 1698.
Publication year
1698-1698
ESTC No.
R6578
Grub Street ID
126915
Description
[48], 238 p. ; 8⁰
Note
Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade.

Imprimatur on verso of title page: December 24. 692. Imprimatur Edmund Bohun.

"A small treatise against usury", a reprint of "A tract against usurie" by Sir Thomas Culpeper, has caption title on leaf R5r.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C3862

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