A new discourse of trade, wherein is recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants The act of navigation. Naturalization of strangers. And our woollen 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 41. 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 offer'd. By Sir Josiah Child.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.

Series:

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world.

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world

Standardized Title:

Discourse about trade

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balance of trade--Great Britain.

Balance of trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([50], 238 p.)

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

New discourse of trade, wherein is recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and sold, by the assigns of J. Sowle, at the Bible in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1718.

Notes:

Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade.

A reissue of the 1698 edition with an additional titlepage dated 1718.

Price on title page: Price 2s.

Reproduction of the original from the University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.

OCLC:

508785955