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.
- Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.
- Date:
- [1745?]
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Discourse about trade
Publication/Creation
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?]
Physical description
[4],xlvi,232[i.e.262]p. ; 120.
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Edition
The fourth edition.
References note
ESTC T90663
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.