An inquiry into the state of national subsistence ... Second edition

afford agriculture annual produce appear arising average price balance of trade bounty bullion Calais capital causes Charles II circulation circumstances commerce commodities competition consequence consumed consumption continued Corn Laws coun creased cultivation decline demand duty Edward Edward III effect employed encourage England English wheat enhancement equal Europe exceed existed exportation of grain extended farmer feudal foreign wheat growth harvest Henry VI Henry VIII high prices Houses of York improvement increase industry interest king kingdom labour land land-owners laws limited lord lower orders manufacturing ment mercantile merchant stranger merchants millions nation nature necessary neral notwithstanding occasioned period persons population ports present money price of wheat prices of grain probably proportion quantity quarter of wheat reason reduced regulations rendered rent revenue Richard II riches rise scarcity sell Sir John Sinclair society sold species stocks supplies supposed tillage tion trade unfavourable wealth wool