Religion, colonising & trade

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Identifikator:: 1834114039

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222204

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Author:: Lucas, Charles Prestwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/101180705

Title:: Religion, colonising & trade

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 84 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter III. The restoration era

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44 RELIGION, COLONISING AND TRADE Adam Smith they were the people of Europe who most neatly approached to free trade. Mun saw what strength and riches the policy of unrestricted or lightly taxed imports had brought to the Netherlands; he saw again how the port of Leghorn had risen in conse- quence of the liberal commercial policy of the then Grand Duke of Tuscany ; and he applied the lesson to England, while insisting on the great gain to be derived from trade with distant countries (on which point Adam Smith differed from him), ‘besides the increase of shipping and mariners thereby.” ! In the first years after the Restoration, when Mun’s treatise was published, Clarendon was the principal adviser.of Charles II. He was a member of the General Council of Foreign Plantations con- stituted before the end of 1660, and he claimed to be, and no doubt was, a good friend of the Overseas Empire. He said of himself that ‘at His Majesty’s re- turn and before, he had used all the endeavours he could to prepare and dispose the King to a great esteem of his plantations, and to encourage the improve- ment of them in all the ways which could reasonably be proposed tohim.”2 Doyle’s estimate of his policy towards New England was that it was not a policy conspicuous for liberality or farsighted wisdom. Butit was in the main just and intelligent.” ® We have seen that in 1661-2 Clarendon gave his name in support of The Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England, and he was one of the eight patentees i 2 LAr Clarendon (Oxford, 1827, 3 vols.), vol. iii, p. 407. 8 The English in America, ut sup.: The Puritan Colonies, vol. ii, D. 150. ¢ Supra, p. 29.

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