Treatise on commerce

Manuscript volume containing the second part of a treatise on English trade and commerce attributed to Sir William Sanderson, 1629, entitled 'A treatise of state marchant (merchant) and of marchandizing state, consisting of commerce, trade and traffique, and upheld by the King's Royal Exchangers Office', with a dedicatory epistle to King James I.

William Sanderson (1586-1676) was secretary to Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, whilst the latter was Chancellor of Cambridge University. During the English Civil War, Sanderson took the side of the royalists, leading to his appointment as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Charles II, who bestowed a knighthood upon him. Publications: A Compleat History of the life and raigne of King Charles from his cradle to his grave (London, 1658), A Compleat History of the lives and reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son ... James the Sixth (H Moseley, R. Tomlins, and G. Sawbridge: London, 1656-55).

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Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

Collection level description.

Manuscript folio. Bound in half-calf.

Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

The first part of this treatise may be found in the British Library, London (Ref: Harl. MS 5208; Lansd. MS 768; Stowe MS 151). Another version is in the Cambridge University Library (Ref: MS Gg. V 18, no. 6).

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This manuscript was part of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792-1872) as MS 12334. It was part of the library of James T Bell, and was bought by Herbert Somerton Foxwell.

There is another treatise attributed to Sanderson at University of London MS 38.