A new discourse of trade: wherein are recommended several weighty points, relating to Companies of Merchants; The Act of Navigation, Naturalization of Strangers, and our Woollen Manufactures. The Balance of Trade, And Nature of Plantations; with 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 Cent. is recommended. And some Proposals for erecting a Court of Merchants, for determining Controversies relating to Maritime Affairs, and for a Law for transferring of Bills of Debts, are humbly offer'd. To which is added, A short, but most excellent: Treatise of Interest. By Sir Josiah Child, baronet.

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  • A new discourse of trade: wherein are recommended several weighty points, relating to Companies of Merchants; The Act of Navigation, Naturalization of Strangers, and our Woollen Manufactures. The Balance of Trade, And Nature of Plantations; with 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 Cent. is recommended. And some Proposals for erecting a Court of Merchants, for determining Controversies relating to Maritime Affairs, and for a Law for transferring of Bills of Debts, are humbly offer'd. To which is added, A short, but most excellent: Treatise of Interest. By Sir Josiah Child, baronet.
  • Discourse about trade
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Imprint
London: printed for J. Hodges, on London Bridge; W. Meadows at the Angel in Cornhill; C. Corbet, against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet street; J. Jackson, at St. James's Gate; J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall; and J. Bevill, near St. Saviours Church, Southwark, [1745?]
Publication year
1745-1745
ESTC No.
T90664
Grub Street ID
310503
Description
[4],xlvi,260,[2]p. ; 12⁰
Note
Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade.

A different setting from another fourth edition in which the verso of the final advertisement leaf is misnumbered 232.

Price from imprint: Price Bound 3 s.
Uncontrolled note
Ht. of colon following "trade" on tp. = 2mm