Discourses Upon Trade: Principally Directed to the Cases of the Interest, Coynage, Clipping, Increase of Money (Illustrated)

Download or read book Discourses Upon Trade: Principally Directed to the Cases of the Interest, Coynage, Clipping, Increase of Money (Illustrated) written by Dudley North and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The circumstances under which the remarkable tract here reprinted, was written and published are described by Sir Dudley North's brother and biographer, Roger North.1 It is doubtful whether the essay, as originally printed, received any attention or served any use. For a considerable period, indeed, it was supposed to be entirely lost. Writing in 1744, Roger North intimated that the tract was designedly suppressed, and declared "it is certain the pamphlet is, and hath been ever since, utterly sunk, and a copy not to be had for money."...