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. By Sir Josiah Child, baronet. To which is added, A small treatise against usury, by the same author
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Glasgow
printed and sold by Robert and Andrew Foulis
1751, M.DCC.LI. [1751]
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| Edition: | The fifth edition |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | "A small treatise against usury", a reprint of "A tract against usurie" by Sir Thomas Culpeper, has a separate titlepage. - English Short Title Catalog, T89154. - Gaskell, 185. - Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade. - Reproduction of original from British Library |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xxix,[1],184p) 8° |