This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...centuries ago that, great as are the differences between some of Sir William Petty's and Gregory King's figures, if we look at them strictly, the impression of the comparison with the present time is the same, whichever estimate we take. I have noticed that these estimates can be used to form a third ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...centuries ago that, great as are the differences between some of Sir William Petty's and Gregory King's figures, if we look at them strictly, the impression of the comparison with the present time is the same, whichever estimate we take. I have noticed that these estimates can be used to form a third estimate, going back to 1600, but I shall only refer to this briefly. The authority is a writer in the British Merchant, a publication of the early part of the last century, in which the Treaty of Commerce with France of that period was discussed from a Protectionist, or perhaps we might say even more accurately, a Fair Trade point of view, and the principal articles of which publication were afterwards collected in three volumes under the same title of a British Merchant. The writer referred to, who is described as the Inspector-General of Customs, requires for his argument to estimate the proportion of foreign commerce to the income and wealth of England, for which purpose he accordingly falls back on what are evidently the estimates already referred to, though there are minor discrepancies, discussing therewith other estimates which had been made. From this paper it appears that at the beginning of the seventeenth century the rental of England was about 6,000,000, giving a capital of 72,000,000 only at twelve years' purchase. As the stock, according to the above proportions, would not be much more than a third, the total valuation of England at the beginning of the seventeenth century could not be more than 100,000,000, or about 20 per head. The Inspector-General's figure is only 17,000,000 for the stock, making with other capital only 89,000,000 in all. These figures, it may be...
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