Great Britain - Commerce - East Indies - Early works to 1800
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Some observations on the rise, progress, and present decay of the woollen manufactories with an estimate of this valuable trade fairly stated, and the great Proportion given yearly to Foreigners, by suffering the Illegal Exportation of our British and Irish Wool and Woollen Goods throughly manufactur'd in Ireland to Foreigners. To which is added, heads of a bill to put a stop to this matchless evil so injurious to both King and country.
Date: 1730?]- E-books
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The weavers case . Plainly shewing, that the wearing of Indian Calicoes, &c. has been, and still is, the occasion of the great decay of trade in general, and almost the total ruin of the silk and woollen manufactury in particular; even to the starving and impoverishing of many thousands of families in most parts of England for want of employment. To which is added, some necessary directions to prevent these growing evils for the future, in order to restore trade to its primitive establishment, and consequently, make it once again flourish, and the nation happy. By Edward Johnson, weaver.
Johnson, EdwardDate: Printed in the year 1719- E-books
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A scheme for raising 3,200,000 l. for the service of the government , by redeeming the fund and trade now enjoy'd by the East-India Company, and reserving to the publick an annuity of 96,000 l. for the disposition of parliament.
Date: 1730?]- E-books
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A fragment on the India trade , written in 1791 by A Dalrymple.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: 1797- E-books
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A letter to a director of the East-India Company
A. B.Date: [1730]