SECTION V. The Encouragement of Industry and Commerce

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