A new discourse of trade [electronic resource] : wherein is recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants : the act of navigation, naturalization of strangers, and our woolen manufactures, the ballance of trade and the nature of plantations, and 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 centum is recommended, and some proposals for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies relating to maritine affairs and for a law for transferrance of bills of debts are humbly offered / by Sir Josiah Child.