Volume 1
The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with the Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt / edited by Charles Henry Hull.
- Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with the Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt / edited by Charles Henry Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![several parts of the World, viz. All sorts of Cloth, Serges, Stuffs, Cottons, Bays, Sayes, Frize, perpetuanus1; as also Stockings, Rugs, arc. Exported out of England, Scot- land, and Ireland, do amount unto Five Millions annum. The value of Lead, Tynn, and Coals, to be Five hundred thousand pounds. The value of all Cloaths, Houshold-stuff, arc. carried into America, Two hundred thousand pounds. The value of Silver, and Gold, taken from the Spaniards Sixty thousand pounds. 2The value of Sugar, Indico, Tobacco, Cotton, and Caccao, brought from the Southward parts of America Six hundred thousand pounds. 2The value of the Fish, Pipe-staves, Masts, Bever, &c. brought from New-England, and the Northern parts of America, Two Hundred Thousand pounds. The value of the Wool, Butter, Hides, Tallow, Beef, [84] Herring, Pilchers, || and Salmon, exported out of Ireland, Eight hundred thousand pounds. The value of the Coals, Salt, Linnen, Yarn, Herrings, Pilchers, Salmon, Linnen-Cloth, and Yarn, brought out of Scotland, and Irela7id, 500000/. The value of Salt-peter, Pepper, Callicoes, Diamonds, Drugs, and Silks, brought out of the East-Indies, above what was spent in England; Eight hundred thousand pounds. The value of the Slaves, brought out of Africa, to serve in our American Plantations Twenty thousand pounds; which with the Freight of English Shipping, Trading into Foreign parts, being above a Million and a makes in all Ten Millions one Hundred and Eighty thousand pounds. Which computation is sufficiently justified by the Customs of the Three Kingdoms, whose intrinsick value are thought to be near a Million per annum, viz. Six hundred thousand pounds, payable to the King; 100 thousand Pounds, for the charges of Colle6ling, &c. Two hundred thousand pounds 1 S, ‘ Perpetuanas ’ inserted. 3 G omits these two paragraphs giving the value of the exports from America, still it gives the total value 10,180,000/.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28146220_0001_0396.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)