Usury - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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Reflections on usury , Containing an account of those usurious contracts, carried on under the mode of under-valued annuities: to which is added the substance of the bill now before the house to prevent them; with cursory observations on it.
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- E-books
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A new discourse of trade : wherein is recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants : the act of navigation, naturalization of strangers, and our woolen manufactures, the ballance of trade and the nature of plantations, and 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 centum is recommended, and some proposals for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies relating to maritine affairs and for a law for transferrance of bills of debts are humbly offered / by Sir Josiah Child.
Sir Josiah Child, 1st BaronetDate: 1698