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Senate House Library, University of London

Treatise on trade by Sir Patience Ward

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 695

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Treatise on trade by Sir Patience Ward

Date(s): [1674]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: Single sheet

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Patience Ward (1629-1696) was Lord Mayor of London, 1681; a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1681; and a Lieutenant of the City of London, 1690.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of a treatise by Sir Patience Ward entitled 'Scheme of the trade as it is at present carried on between England and France in the commodities of the native product and manufacture of each country, calculated as exactly as possible in obedience to the command of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the treaty of commerce with France...28th November 1674'. Tables included in the manuscript list quantities and prices of commodities exported to France and imported from there, and a comparison of these figures should enable their lordships...'easily [to] discerne ye great prejudice ye English nation hath sustained and the great advantage ye French have and doe dayly make by holding this treaty in suspense...'.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

18" x 13½"

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bought from W.A. Myers & Co. in 1966.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Publication note:

Printed as a broadsheet in London in 1674 (dated 29 Nov).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.