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 4℗Đ. 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.
| Author/creator | Child, Josiah |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | A new edition. |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange, MDCCLXXV. [1775] |
| Description | 4 unnumbered pages, xxxix, 1 unnumbered page, 224 pages ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Discourse about trade |
| General note | Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade. |
| General note | Includes "A small treatise against usury", a reprint of "A tract against usurie" by Sir Thomas Culpeper. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, N10021. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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