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
Subtitle: 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
Edition: A new edition.
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange
Published: 1775
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Balance of trade
Work titles: Discourse about trade
Notes: Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade.

Includes "A small treatise against usury", a reprint of "A tract against usurie" by Sir Thomas Culpeper.

Reproduction of the original from the University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.