Some reasons humbly offered for laying a duty upon wrought silks

Proposals for raising a supply to Her Majesty of 300000l. per ann. and for the greater encouragement of the manufactory of weaving , by a more effectual method of preventing the clandestine importation of the goods hereafter named, and thereby secure Her Majesties customs, as well as incourage the said trade, both which are extreamly lessen'd by such ill practices.

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Boit, Charles 1662-1727.

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Some reasons humbly offered for laying a duty upon wrought silks