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 the 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 4PR(T. 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 transference of bills of debts, are humbly offered. By Sir Josiah Child

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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 the 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 4PR(T. 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 transference of bills of debts, are humbly offered. By Sir Josiah Child
• Discourse about trade

People / Organizations

• Josiah Child (Author)
• Richardson and ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange, MDCCLXXV. [1775] A new edition.; ..

Publication year

1775

ESTC No.

N10021

Grub Street ID

30

Description

[4],xxxix,[1],224p. ; 12°.

Note

Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade

Includes "A small treatise against usury", a reprint of "A tract against usurie" by Sir Thomas Culpeper.