Catalogue Entry: MINT00685

Proposal to raise the price of tin to £6 a hundredweight, with calculations of the profit this would generate. The Dutch cannot have much tin in the East Indies or they would be exporting it in quantity already

Author: John Williams

Source: MINT 19/3/532, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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