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Author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Title: A brief state of the inland or home trade, of England: and of the oppressions it suffers, and the dangers which threaten it from the invasion of hawkers, pedlars, and clandestine traders of all sorts. Humbly represented to the present Parliament.
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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
London: printed for Tho. Warner, 1730.
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INTRODUCTION.
CHAP. I. Of the Excellent Order and Method of carrying on our Home Trade in Eng∣land, from the first Principles or Materials of our Manufactures, to the finishing of them.
CHAP. II. Of the Circulation of the Inland Trade, after the finishing the several Ma∣nufactures in remote and different Places.
CHAP. III. Of the Manner of carrying on the Re∣tale Trade, by the Assistance of the City of London, in all the most di∣stant Parts of this Kingdom.
CHAP. IV. That all this Home Trade is interrup∣ted and distress'd by the Invasion of Hawkers, Pedlars, and other Clan∣destine Traders; the Circulation stopt, and the Retaling Shopkeepers, who are the Life of the Whole Trade intercepted and supplanted.
CHAP. V. That these Hawkers and Clandestine Traders are the great support of the Smugglers, and are the Tools of those Enemies to all the fair Trade, by whom so fatal a Correspondence is carried on.
CHAP. VI. Of the various Species of Pedlars who are concerned in this clandestine un∣lawful and destructive Trade; and how they are distinguish'd by their manner of Trading; but all joyn in this Part, (viz.) The fatal Blow they give to the settled Trade of this Kingdom, and to the fair Traders mentioned before.
CHAP. VII. Of the Necessity there is to suppress not the Licensed Hawkers only, but all the private Traders of whatsoever Denomination, and of the great Ad∣vantage it would be to the Publick to do so.
CHAP. VIII. Of the Numbers of the People em∣ploy'd thus in clandestine Trade, and whether it be just, to throw so many Hands out of Business, and perhaps out of the Kingdom; since Numbers of Inhabitants are the Wealth and Strength of a Nation.