A discourse about trade, wherein the reduction of interest of money to 4 l. per centum, is recommended. Methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed. Several weighty points relating to companies of merchants. The act of navigation. Naturalization o strangers. Our woollen manufactures. The ballance of trade. And the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed. And some arguments for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies, relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferrance of bills of debts, are humbly offered. Never before printed.

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  • A discourse about trade, wherein the reduction of interest of money to 4 l. per centum, is recommended. Methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed. Several weighty points relating to companies of merchants. The act of navigation. Naturalization o strangers. Our woollen manufactures. The ballance of trade. And the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed. And some arguments for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies, relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferrance of bills of debts, are humbly offered. Never before printed.
  • Trade and interest of money considered, &c Small treatise against usury
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Imprint
[London]: Printed by A. Sowle, at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane: and sold at the Three Keys in Nags-head-Court, Grace-Church-Street, 1690.
Publication year
1690-1690
ESTC No.
R8738
Grub Street ID
128875
Description
[74], 37, [1], 208, 205-234, [2] p. ; 8⁰
Note
Attributed to Josiah Child. --Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).

"Trade and interest of money considered, &c." has caption title with separate pagination and register.

"A small treatise against usury", a reprint of "A tract against usurie" by Sir Thomas Culpeper, has caption title on p. 205; pagination and register are continuous.

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