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 offer'd. 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,260,[2]p. ; 120.
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Edition
The fourth edition.
References note
ESTC T90664
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.