Download or read book English Trade and Finance Chiefly in the Seventeenth Century (Classic Reprint) written by William Albert Samuel Hewins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Trade and Finance Chiefly in the Seventeenth Century In the chapter on the Commercial Treaties I have illustrated the changes in public Opinion on commercial subjects during the eighteenth century. The controversy about the Free Trade clauses of the Treaty of Utrecht had important results, and I have quoted at length a passage from Mercator which illustrates the advanced views advocated by Defoe and other writers in that series of papers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.