Treatise on trade by Sir Patience Ward
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0096 MS 695 |
Held at | : Senate House Library, University of London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections › |
Full title | : Treatise on trade by Sir Patience Ward |
Date(s) | : [1674] |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : Single sheet |
Name of creator(s) | : Unknown |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
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 & 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.
Finding aids:
Collection level description.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bought from W.A. Myers & Co. in 1966.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Printed as a broadsheet in London in 1674 (dated 29 Nov).
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Nov 2001
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