A discourse about trade, : wherein the reduction of interest of money to 4 l. per centum, is recommended. Methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed. Several weighty points relating to companies of merchants. The act of navigation. Naturalization of strangers. Our woollen manufactures. The ballance of trade. And the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed. And some arguments for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies, relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferrance of bills of debts, are humbly offered..
Child, Josiah,Sir,1630-1699.
Culpeper, Thomas,Sir,1578-1662.
Reid, William Robert,1854-1919,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.2477
Gibbon, Francis,active 1693-1712,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.2477
[London] : Printed by A. Sowle, at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane: and sold at the Three Keys in Nags-head-Court, Grace-Church-Street,
1690.
"Never before printed." -- t.p.
Attributed to Josiah Child. --Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).
"Trade and interest of money considered, &c." has caption title with separate pagination and register.
"A small treatise against usury." has caption title on page 205; register is continuous. Attributed to Sir Thomas Culpeper. --NUC pre-1956.
Place of publication from Wing (CD-ROM edition)
With a final errata leaf.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
Arber's Term cat.
ESTC
Microfilm.
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown "William Robert Reid". Inscription on the title page "Francis Gibbon de Benenden Kent BQ:.1693" and on the verso "Frans Gibbon May 2th: 1712". Marginalia in the Gibbon's hand on various pages.
Usury
Balance of trade