AN ENQUIRY INTO THE REASONS OF THE CONDUCT OF GREAT BRITAIN, With Relation to the Present State of Affairs In Europe.
London: Printed, and Sold by James Roberts in W[ar]-wick Lane. MDCCXXVII [1727]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo [in-fours], disbound but rebound in modern plain wrappers, woodcut emblem on title-leaf, engraved chapter heading at head of text on A2. Pp[1]-[3]; 4-112; A1-O4; collated complete. Trimmed a bit tightly in the margins affecting a few page numbers; a nice clean copy. Sabin 32280; Goldsmith 6502. Item #313459
¶ HOADLEY, Benjamin, Bishop of Winchester [1676-1761]. A tract concerning British relations with Spain, the West Indies, Commerce with America, & The Slave Trade. It discusses "El Affiento de Negros", the right to deal in Negro Slaves: in 1713, the British were awarded the right to the asiento in the Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. The British government later passed on its rights to the South Sea Company.Also discussed is the 'Depredations and Hostilities committed in the West Indies by the Spaniards, under pretence of their right to guard against Clandestine Trade- those Violences, by which the whole Commerce of Jamaica has been well nigh destroyed and the trade of that Island reduced to a miserable Condition'.
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