A new discourse of trade [electronic resource] : wherein are recommended. Several weighty points; Relating to Companies of merchants. The act of navigation, naturalization of strangers, and our Woollen manufactures. The balance of trade, and nature of plantations; with their consequences, in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed. Methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed. The reduction of interest of money to 4 l. per cent. is recommended. And some proposals for erecting a court of merchants, for determining controversies relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferring of bills of debts, are humbly offered. By Sir Josiah Child, baronet. To which is added, A small treatise against usury, by the same author.