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continued till 1746. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1733. ↩

23 Geo. II, c. 31; 25 Geo. II, c. 40; Anderson, Commerce, AD 1750, 1752; above, here. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1618, 1631 and 1662. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1743, quoting Captain Christopher Middleton. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1670. ↩

“Eight or nine private merchants do engross nine-tenth parts of the company’s stock.” Anderson, Commerce, AD 1743, quoting from An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson’s Bay⁠ ⁠… with an Abstract of Captain Middleton’s Journal and Observations Upon His Behaviour, by Arthur Dobbs, Esq., 1744, p. 58. ↩

In his Account, pp. 3 and 58, he talks of 2,000 percent, but this, of course, only refers to the difference between buying and selling prices. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1743, but the examination is not nearly so comprehensive, nor the expression of opinion so ample as is suggested by the text. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1713. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1731, 1732 and 1734. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1724 and 1732. But there was no successful voyage; the company were “considerable losers in every one” of the eight years. ↩

By 9 Geo. I, c. 6. Anderson, Commerce, AD 1723. ↩

This was done by 6 Geo. II, c. 28. Anderson, Commerce, AD 1733. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1732 and AD 1733. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1748 and AD 1750. ↩

“Until this time the English East India trade was carried on by several separate stocks, making particular running-voyages; but in this year they united all into one general joint-capital stock.” Anderson, Commerce, AD 1612. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1693. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1676. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1681 and AD 1685. ↩

The whole of this history is in Anderson, Commerce, AD 1698. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1701. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1730. ↩

“This coalition was made on the 22nd of July, 1702, by an indenture tripartite between the Queen and the said two companies.” —⁠Anderson, Commerce, AD 1702 ↩

6 Ann., c. 17. Anderson, Commerce, AD 1708. ↩

7 Geo. III, c. 49, and 8 Geo. III, c. 11. ↩

In 1772⁠–⁠3. Additions and Corrections and ed. 3 read “subjects.” ↩

13 Geo. III, c. 63. ↩

House of Commons Journals, April 27, 1773. ↩

The spelling in other parts of the work is “neat.” The Additions and Corrections read “nett” both here and five lines above. The discrepancy was obviously noticed in one case and not in the other. ↩

Examen de la réponse de M. N —⁠Smith

Necker —⁠Cannan Au Mémoire de M. l’Abbé Morellet, sur la Compagnie des Indes, par l’auteur du Mémoire, 1769, pp. 35⁠–⁠38. ↩

6 Ann., c. 22. ↩

At least as against private persons, Anderson, Commerce, AD 1720. ↩

Eds. 4 and 5 insert “it” here, by a misprint. ↩

Additions and Corrections and ed. 3 read “was.” ↩

Above, here through here. ↩

Anderson, Commerce, AD 1690, 1704, 1710, 1711. ↩

This section, beginning here, appears first in Additions and Corrections and ed. 3. ↩

Ed. 1 reads “the youth” as in the first line of the text. ↩

Eds. 1⁠–⁠4 read “is.” ↩

Ed. 1 reads “the year.” ↩

Rae, Life of Adam Smith, p. 48, thinks Smith’s salary at Glasgow may have been about £70 with a house, and his fees near £100. ↩

Eds. 1 and 2 read “in physic.” ↩

Ed. 1 does not contain “the.” ↩

Ed. 1 reads “and they still continue to be so in some universities.” ↩

“Necessarily” and “naturally” are transposed in ed. 1. ↩

Ed. 1 reads “those.” ↩

Ed. 1 reads “Those two chapters were.” ↩

Ed. 1 reads, “What was called Metaphysics or Pneumatics was set in opposition to Physics, and was cultivated.” ↩

Ed. 1 reads “of.” ↩

Above, here. ↩

Repeated all but verbatim from above, here. ↩

Hist., vi, 56; xviii, 34. ↩

Ant. Rom., ii, xxiv to xxvii, esp. xxvi. ↩

Repub., iii, 400⁠–⁠401. ↩

Politics, 1340 a. ↩

Hist., iv, 20. ↩

Esprit des lois, liv. iv, chap. viii, where Plato, Aristotle and Polybius are quoted. ↩

Iliad, xiii, 137; xviii, 494, 594; Odyssey, i, 152; viii, 265; xviii, 304; xxiii, 134. ↩

Ed. 1 places “those parents” here. ↩

Plutarch, Life of Solon, quoted by Montesquieu, Esprit des Lois,