England's Timber Trade in the Last of the 17th and First of the 18th Century, More Especially with the Baltic Sea; Inaug. Diss

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. The object of the following pages is to trace the rise of the Timber Trade or Trade in naval stores between England and the nations around the Baltic Sea, together with some of the circumstances connected with the different measures that were adopted for its regulation: as monograph, so far as possible, to trace it as distinct from the numerous other branches of trade with which it was, more or less, necessarily connected. Or in other words, the aim of this investigation will be to show some of the relations of this Trade to a number of the political movements and public events of the last of the 17th and first of the 18th Century. It will be apparent, at once. to those who have turned their attention to this subject, that the sources of information are very much scattered. But some may suppose the subject to have been treated of in standard works on the History of Trade. This, however, is.true. only. so far as it forms a part of the general Trade, and, even where it is specially alluded to, it is nearly always found under the general name of Trade without denning the special branch. Leaving off further attempts to find it treated of more specifically, I have gathered the greater part of my material, except what information I have been able to find in various state Papers, from works upon side subjects, and upon travel--indeed from various branches of the literature of that and the following time. Even the State Papers, so far as I have been able to examine them, merely make mention of certain facts in the abstract and refer for further information to the Admiralty Papers. Among these papers in London and in the old customhouse reports at the same place, there is no doubt ja rich field for historical investigation. Notwithstanding these difficult...