Smuggling - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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A scheme to prevent the running of wool abroad, and to encourage the manufactures at home Re-Printed with several additions. Together with Notes upon Trade and Industry, Idleness, and Extravagance. Also a scheme to prevent the smuggling of brandy, tea, &c. into England. To Encourage the Fair Trader, and encrease His Majesty's Revenues. The second edition, with additions. Shewing, In part, what should, and what should not be done, for the Purposes aforesaid, and that the Riches of a Nation encrease in Proportion as the Produce thereof is (or decrease in Proportion as the same is not) properly improved, manufactured, or consumed. By John Newball.
Newball, John, fl. 1730-1748.Date: [1744]- E-books
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A proposal fully to prevent the smugling [sic] of wool , which by methods entirely new, shows how, and wholly takes of the former charge in the old methods of endeavouring to do it. Also, adds more than ten millions yearly to the trade of the British nation. ... All which with all due deference and respect is offered to the British Parliament.
Gray, JefferyDate: 1732- E-books
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A Comparative view of the present laws against the illicit exportation of wool, &c : and the bill now depending in Parliament for the same purpose; whereby are refuted the charges brought against the said bill, by the resolutions of the meetings held at the house of Sir John Thorold, Bart. and the Thatched House Tavern.
Date: 1788- E-books
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A ballance for merchants and mariners: containing an undoubted account of the principal causes of the great decay of trade; with proper directions to set our trade again on a right foot. By a sincere well-wisher to the trade and prosperity of the nation
Sincere well-wisher to the trade and prosperity of the nation.Date: [1719]