Mercantilist Theory and Practice

Volume 1: Trade, Growth and State Interest Thomas Milles, The Customers Replie (1604); Thomas Milles, The Custumers Alphabet and Primer (1608); Henry Robinson, England's Safety, in Trades Encrease (1641); Henry Robinson, Briefe Considerations, Concerning the Advancement of Trade and Navigation (1649); Decay of Trade. A Treatise against the Abating of Interest (1641); Thomas Violet, An Humble Declaration ... Touching the Transportation of Gold and Silver (1643); [John Houghton], England's Great Happiness (1677); William Carter, An Alarum to England to Prevent its Destruction by the Loss of Trade and Navigation (1700); Richard Welton, The Great Advantages of Navigation and Commerce to any Nation or People (1710); Erasmus Philips, An Appeal to Common Sense (1720); Erasmus Philips, The State of Nation, in Respect to her Commerce, Debts and Money (1725); Jacob Henriques, When Trade Increases, Riches will Improve (1755) Volume 2: Foreign Trade: Regulation and Practice Henry Parker, Of a Free Trade (1648); William Potter, The Trades-Man's Jewel (1650); An Act for the Advancing and Regulating of the Trade of this Commonwealth (1650); A Declaration Set Forth by the Lord Lieutenant Generall (1651); Thomas Violet, The Advancement of Merchandize (1651); Henry Robinson, Certain Proposalls in Order to the Peoples Freedome and Accommodation in some Particulars (1652); The Reasons Humbly Offered to Consideration (c.1662); Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons by the Tobacco and Wine Merchants (c.1700]); Charles Davenant, An Essay upon the Probable Methods of Making a People Gainers in the Ballance of Trade (1699); Truth is but Truth, as it is Timed! (1719); A Ballance for Merchants and Mariners (1719); [David Bindon], A Letter from a Merchant who has left off Trade to a Member of Parliament (1738) Volume 3: The Colonial System [Richard Eburne], A Plaine Path-Way to Plantations (1624); Balthasar Gerbier, A Sommary Description (1660); An Answer of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa (1667); News from New-England (1676); Arthur Dobbs, An Essay on the Trade and Improvement of Ireland (1729-31); Representation of the Board of Trade Relating to ... his Majesty's Plantations in America (1733-4); [Malachy Postlethwayt], The African Trade, the Great Pillar and Support of the British Plantation Trade in America (1745); The Case of the Importation of Bar-Iron from our own Colonies of North America (1756); William Knox, The Interest of the Merchants and Manufacturers of Great-Britain, in the Present Contest with the Colonies (1775); Josiah Child, Charles Davenant and William Wood, Select Dissertations on Colonies and Plantations (1775) Volume 4: The Industrial Interest and the Employment of the Poor Peter Chamberlen, The Poor Man's Advocate, or Englands Samaritan (1649); Henry Robinson, The Office of Addresses and Encounters (1650); Richard Haines, A Model of Government for the Good of the Poor and the Wealth of the Nation (1678); Richard Haines, England's Weal and Prosperity Proposed (1681); A Discourse upon the Necessity of Encouraging Mechanic Industry (1690); [John Pollexfen], England and East-India Inconsistent in their Manufactures (1697); Charles Povey, The Unhappiness of England (1701); John Cary, An Essay Towards Regulating the Trade, and Employing the Poor of this Kingdom (1717); Thomas Troughear, The Best Way of Making our Charity Truly Beneficial to the Poor (1730); [William Hay], Remarks on the Laws Relating to the Poor ([1735]); Josiah Tucker, Reflections on the Expediency of a Law for the Naturalization of Foreign Protestants (1752); William Bailey, A Treatise on the Better Employment and more Comfortable Support of the Poor in Workhouses (1758)