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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.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1690 Chi ApD55 C 536
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699 16937
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Usury--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
- Usury.
- Balance of trade--Early works to 1800.
- Balance of trade.
- Great Britain--Commerce--History--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--17th century--Early works to 1800.
- Local Subjects:
- Great Britain--Commerce--History--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--17th century--Early works to 1800.
- Physical Description:
- [74], 37, [1], 208, 205-234, [2] p. ; 8⁰.
- Other Title:
- Trade and interest of money considered, &c
- Small treatise against usury
- Place of Publication:
- [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.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Place of publication from Wing (CD-ROM edition)
- With a final errata leaf.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- ESTC R8738
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C3853
- Arber's Term cat., II, 371
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