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Record Nr.

UNISA996390560303316

Autore

Pett Peter, Sir, <1630-1699.>

Titolo

A discourse of the growth of England in populousness and trade since the Reformation [[electronic resource] ] : of the clerical revenue, and the same asserted to be reasonable and necessary here : of the numbers of the people of England, founded on the poll bills, and the bishops survey, in the year 1676 : of the Bills of mortality, and political observations thereon : of the necessity of future publick taxes for the support of the government and our religion : of the advancement of the linen manufacture, with an account of the linen cloaths, canvas, linen-yarn, hemp, flax, and cordage, imported into the port of London ... from Mich. 1689 : with various political remarks and calculations relating to most parts of Christiandom : shewing likewise from natural causes the impossibility of the advancement of popery (and consequently the folly of those that attempt to restore it) in England : with some observations on the Jesuites principles savouring fraud or calumny : therein also is largely discuss'd that papal tenet of the lawfullness of burning heretical cities : by way of letter to a person of honour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed, and are to be sold by Randall Taylor ..., 1689

Descrizione fisica

[2], 287 p

Soggetti

Economics - England - History

Taxation - England

Linen - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reissue of the first part of The happy future state of England, first published in 1687, without the preface and index. cf. BM.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113