English Economic History: Select Documents. Various
SECTION V
THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE
1. | Letters Patent granted to the Cabots by Henry VII, 1496 | 400 |
2. | The Merchant Adventurers' Case for Allowing the Export of Undressed Cloth, 1514–36 | 402 |
3. | The Rise in Prices, the Encouragement of Corn growing, and the Protection of Manufactures, c. 1549 | 404 |
4. | Sir Thomas Gresham on the Fall of the Exchanges, 1558 | 416 |
5. | The reasons why Bullion is Exported (temp. Eliz.) | 419 |
6. | The Italian Merchants Explain the Foreign Exchanges, 1576 | 420 |
7. | An Act Avoiding divers Foreign Wares made by Handicraftsmen Beyond the Seas, 1562 | 424 |
8. | An Act Touching Cloth Workers and Cloth Ready Wrought to be Shipped over the Sea, 1566 | 426 |
9. | Incorporation of a Joint Stock Mining Company, 1568 | 427 |
10. | An Act for the Increase of Tillage, 1571 | 428 |
11. | Instructions for an English Factor in Turkey, 1582 | 431 |
12. | The Advantages of Colonies, 1583 | 434 |
13. | Lord Burghley to Sir Christopher Hatton on the State of Trade, 1587 | 438 |
14. | A List of Patents and Monopolies, 1603 | 440 |
15. | Instructions Touching the Bill for Free Trade, 1604 | 443 |
16. | The Establishment of a Company to export Dyed and Dressed Cloth in place of the Merchant Adventurers, 1616–17 | 454 |
17. | Sir Julius Cæsar's proposals for Reviving the Trade in Cloths, 1616 | 460 |
18. | The Grant of a Monopoly for the Manufacture of Soap, 1623 | 461 |
19. | The Statute of Monopolies, 1623–4 | 465 |
20. | An Act for the Free Trade of Welsh Cloths, 1623–4 | 468 |
21. | The Economic Policy of Strafford in Ireland, 1636 | 470 |
22. | Revocation of Commissions, Patents and Monopolies Granted by the Crown, 1639 | 472 |
23. | Ordinance establishing an Excise, 1643 | 475 |
PART III: 1660–1846 SECTION I INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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