The British Merchant; Or, Commerce Preserv'd: In Three Volumes, Volume 2John Darby in Bartholomew-Close, 1721 |
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The British Merchant; Or, Commerce Preserv'd: In Three Volumes, Volume 2 Charles King Volledige weergave - 1721 |
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Pagina 156 - ... for the duty of entry ; which entry fhall not be permitted but by St. Valery upon the Somme, Rouen, Nants...
Pagina 401 - ... and fashions of the world change, and at some times, in some places (as now in most), slight, cheap, light cloth will sell more plentifully and better than that which is heavier, stronger and truer wrought ; and if we intend to have the trade of the world we must imitate the Dutch, who make the worst as well as the best of all manufactures, that we may be in a capacity of serving all markets and all humours.
Pagina 327 - Majefties may have leave and licence to come with their fhips, as alfo with the merchandizes and goods on board the fame, the trade and importation whereof are not prohibited by the laws of either kingdom...
Pagina 341 - A Scheme of the Trade, As it is at present Carried on between England and France, In the Commodities of the Native Product and Manufacture of each Country ; Calculated as exactly as possible in Obedience to the Commands of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the Treaty of Commerce with France : and humbly tender'd to their lordships.
Pagina 328 - ... of either kingdom who die in the territories of the other, in convenient places to be appointed for that purpofe ; nor ihall the funerals or fepulchres of the deceafed be in any wife difturbed.
Pagina 264 - Merchant replies : I have had the curiosity to inquire into the paper manufacture, and I find that five pair of hands are employed at every fat ; that so many hands are necessary in England, and that more cannot be employed in France. I am taught, too, by our own manufacturers, that they do not dispatch here above eight reams of paper in a day at a single fat, and that they dispatch above nine in France with the same...
Pagina 265 - ... and that more cannot be employed in France. I am taught, too. by our own manufacturers, that they do not dispatch here above eight reams of paper in a day at a single fat, and that they dispatch above nine in France with the same number of hands ; and yet I believe there is not any man in England so hardy as to affirm that either ours, or indeed any paper in the world, exceeds that of France.
Pagina 26 - ... find what will be done in your Parliament in relation to the French trade ; for I dread their taking some resolutions that will prove destructive to this.
Pagina 262 - ... There are seven provinces in France where the manufacture of paper is settled, viz., Champaigne, Normandy, Britany, Angoumois, Perigord, Limousin, and Auvergne ; the three last provinces are full of large forests of chestnut trees, and abound so much in that kind of fruit, that the common people have no other food all the year round, and no other drink but water ; so that they can afford their work very cheap, and do it for next to nothing, except some of the upper workmen, who earn a small salary...
Pagina 235 - In silk, stuffs, taffeties, poudesoys, armoysins, clothes of gold and silver, tabbies, plain and wrought, silk'ribbands and other such like silk stuffs as are made at Tours, valued to be worth above three hundred thousand pounds by year. 3. In silk ribbands, gallowns, laces, and buttons of silk, which are made at Paris, Rouen, Chaimont, S.