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 offered. To which is added, A Short, but most excellent Treatise of Interest. By Sir Josiah Child, Baronet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.

Standardized Title:

Discourse about trade

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balance of trade--Great Britain.

Balance of trade.

Great Britain--Commerce--History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],xlvi,232[i.e.262]p. )

Edition:

The fourth edition.

Other Title:

New discourse of trade

Place of Publication:

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?]

Notes:

Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade.

P. 262 misnumbered 232; the final recto containing an advertisement is unpaginated.

Price from imprint: Price Bound 3 s.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T90663.

OCLC:

642725838