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<titleStmt><title n="EcB1681"><title>A treatise wherein is demonstrated [...] That the East India Trade is the most national of all foreign trades [...]</title>
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<publicationStmt><p>Distributed as part of the Lampeter Corpus</publicationStmt>
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<idNo type="Wing">C3866</idNo>
<idNo type="Lamp">T324/1897</idNo>
<date>1681</date>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<printer>T[homas] J[ames]</printer>
<bookseller>Robert Boulter</bookseller>
<pubFormat>quarto</pubFormat>
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<persName>[Josiah Child]</persName>
<birth><date>1630</date> London</birth>
<residence>London; Portsmouth; London</residence>
<education>merchant's apprentice</education>
<occupation>naval store dealer; mayor of Portsmouth; director and chairman of East  India Company; MP</occupation>
<socecstatus>professions (merchant); 1678: gentry (baronet)</socecstatus>
<socecstatuspat>professions (merchant; weaver)</socecstatuspat>
<biogNote>made a fortune for himself estimated at £200,000</biogNote>
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