An Historical View of the Domestic Economy of ...

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By George Chalmers

Published 1812
A. Constable and company
; [etc., etc. ]

496 pages

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Mar 6, 2007

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Published originally under title: An estimate of the comparative strength of Great Britain.

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS	1
dearths, populousness, beneficed
The Population in the principal Towns of England	16
populousness, domesday, artificers
The State of England at ffie Accession of Eliza	35
davenant, reversionary, harl
CHAP IV	61
davenant, dearths, outports
CHAP V	83
nett, artificers, manufactures
CHAP VIII	128
merchandizes, ditto, brackenridge

? CHAP	158

Tlie Prosperity of Great Britain from	200
consols, twelvemonth, unfunded
CHAP XIII	283
importations, melioration, customhouse
CHAP XV	354
howlet, bushe, enumerations
CHAP XVI	397

The Losses of the Trade of the British Isles front	450
hamburgh, magens, bullion

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Amiens - Page 287
The late war which the peace of Amiens brought to an end, was the necessary means, under wise management, of uniting to us, in Ireland, ...
more pages: 239 283 437 465

Dublin - Page 401
He published his Essay on the Trade, and Improvement of Ireland, at Dublin, in 1729 : He was a member of the Irish parliament; and had examined with ...
more pages: 386 400 406 425 432 474

Liverpool - Page 227
which was followed, on the i8th, by the failure of their correspondents, Caldwell arid Company, of Liverpool, to the amount of nearly a million. ...
more pages: 40 164 380

Venice - Page 330
Turkey, and Venice, may be considered as of a doubtful kind ; because they are not, in their balances, either constantly favourable, or unfavourable. ...
more pages: 215 331 373

Belfast - Page 433
The other fact is, that in 1804, at Belfast, there was an obvious preference given to the notes of the country banks of Scotland over the notes of the ...

London - Page 379
on appeal, houses, as not properly chargeable. This may occasion an apparent decrease. J In the villages round London, there were baptized,. during.
more pages: 18 25 52 70 72 227 390 399 415 464

Bristol - Page 57
And from this enumeration we may infer, That, in the full inhabited city of Bristol, six, at least, reside in every house. ...

Cambridge - Page 46
highways were enlarged, and repaired,while turnpikes were placed on the great Northern road, in the counties of Hertford, Huntingdon, and Cambridge. ...
more pages: 378

York - Page 381
Yet, owing to what moral cause is it, that York, and Lancashire, Chester, and Derby, have acquired so many people ? ...
more pages: 50 378

Glasgow - Page 236
My commercial correspondent at Glasgow, whose sound •ense and genuine veracity, I will warrant, wrote to me on the 9th of December 1793, as follows :— ...
more pages: 233

Derby - Page 381
Yet, owing to what moral cause is it, that York, and Lancashire, Chester, and Derby, have acquired so many people ? ...

Paris - Page 133
When, by the treaty of Paris, entire freedom was again restored to foreign commerce, the traders once more sent out adventures of a still greater ...

Berlin - Page 137
saved Europe from bankruptcy, by the superiority of her opu-lence, and by the disinterestedness of her spirit. The failures, which happened at Berlin, ...
more pages: 452

Genoa - Page 29
after this epoch, borrowed large sums, in Genoa, and the Netherlands. A parliamentary debate, of the year 1523, exhibits a lively picture of the ...

Birmingham - Page 110
manufacturing towns, such as Liverpool, Man-chester, Birmingham, and others; which are still increasing in wealth, people, business, and build-ings. ...

Norwich - Page 17
Domesday Book represents our cities to have been little superior to villages, at the Conquest, f and much more incon- * Dr Price talked of Norwich ...

Milan - Page 454
gan. t Never were there measures of such mighty portent, as the Berlin, and Milan decrees, so com-pletely disappointed, in expected effect. ...

Canterbury - Page 50
In Canterbury, and York - 2,4.77,251- 108676 13856 Contrast with these the before-mentioned communicants, and recusants, in 1603 2057033 - - - - 8465 ...

Coventry - Page 16
for - - ' - - - 7248 10872 16145 Bristol, for - - - - ' - - 6345 9517 63645 Plymouth, for 4-,837 7255 4-3194-. Coventry, for 4817 7225 16049-.

Colchester - Page 17
Colchester, for ... Newcastle on Tyne, for - Canterbury, for ... St Edmondi-bury, for - -. Number of Laymen, ...

Southampton - Page 378
Southampton -. Stafford - -. Suffolk - -. Surrey, Ac. -. Sussex - -. Warwick - -. Westmoreland. Wilts - - -. Worcester. York ... - 17818 —. r 19627 — ...

Stafford - Page 378
Stafford - -. Suffolk - -. Surrey, Ac. -. Sussex - -. Warwick - -. Westmoreland. Wilts - - -. Worcester. York ... - 17818 —. r 19627 —. - 5.661 — ...

Oxford - Page 378
Oxford - -. Rutland - -. Salop - - -. Somerset - -. Southampton -. Stafford - -. Suffolk - -. Surrey, Ac. -. Sussex - -. Warwick - -. Westmoreland ...

Warwick - Page 378
Warwick - -. Westmoreland. Wilts - - -. Worcester. York ... - 17818 —. r 19627 —. - 5.661 —. 27471 -. « 45900 -. - 28557 —. - 86278 -. - 47557 — ...

Hertford - Page 378
Hertford - -. •Huntingdon -. Kent - - -. Lancashire. Leicester - -. Lincoln. Middlesex, &c-. - 12170 —. - 16996 —. - 18.6K8 —. - 18629 —. - 25592 - ...

Leicester - Page 378
Leicester - -. Lincoln. Middlesex, &c-. - 12170 —. - 16996 —. - 18.6K8 —. - 18629 —. - 25592 -. - 26613 —. - 15279 —. - 56/202 - . 17859 -. - 53545 - ...

Gibraltar - Page 108
And the war with Spain, in 1718, obstructed our Mediterranean commerce, as every war, with that kingdom, must continue to do, while Gibraltar, ...

Rome - Page 186
The sinking funds, that had been established, in Holland, during 1655, and at Rome, in 1685, were thus created. The well-known sink-ing-fund, ...