Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature. Wilson Lloyd Bevan

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       Wilson Lloyd Bevan

      Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature

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       Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature — Preface

       Introduction

       Materials for Petty's Biography

       The Tractate on Education and the Bills of Mortality

       Land—Labor—Value—Rent

       Money and Taxation

       Petty in Relation to Contemporary England, and his Place in Economic Literature

      Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature — Preface

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      PREFACE.

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      The following monograph, originally prepared as a dissertation, is presented with a good deal of diffidence to a wider public. Sir William Petty seems to merit more attention than he has hitherto received. An ordinary student must generally content himself with the few pages devoted to him by Roscher or by Cunningham. What has here been done is designed to give a fuller account than can at present be found elsewhere, with the hope of calling forth in the future a more satisfactory work than this can pretend to be. The reason for the space given up to Petty' s biography may not be very apparent. It is believed that it will be found to throw some light on his writings. Petty was no littérateur. His own experience and career supplied him with the material of his "Tracts." I wish here, as I have had no opportunity in the work itself, to express my great obligations to my honored friend, Professor Brentano, of the University of Munich. Without implying any responsibility on his part, it can with truth be said that, without his direction and encouragement, this essay would not have been undertaken or completed. It is pleasant for me here to record that a kind word from Professor Cossa, of Pavia, well known for his tenderness towards youthful work, induced me to think of republishing what seemed to me too imperfect even to offer as a short-lived contribution to a neglected field of study.

      W. L. B.⁠

      Concord, Mass.,

      ⁠September, 1894.

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      INTRODUCTION-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

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      List of Works Used or Referred to.

      Aubrey.—Letters and Lives of Eminent Persons.

      ———History of Wiltshire, edited by Britton.

      Boyle's Works.—London (1744 and 1772).

      Burrows.—Register of Oxford Visitation (Camden Society).

      Burton.—Parliamentary Diary.

      Buxton.—Finance and Politics.

      Carte.—Life of the Duke of Ormond (Oxford ed.).

      Chalmers.—Critical Estimate of the Nation.

      Cunningham.—Growth of English Industry (2d ed.).

      De Morgan.—Budget of Paradoxes.

      Eden.—State of the Poor.

      Evelyn.—Diary and Correspondence, edited by Bray.

      Faber.—Agrarschutz.

      Harleian Miscellany.

      John.—Geschichte der Statistik.

      Langtoft's Chronicle, edited by Hearne.

      Lecky.—History of England (1st ed.).

      Loria.—Analisi della teoria capitalista.

      Lowndes.—Bibliographical Manual.

      Macaulay's History of England.

      Macpherson.—History of Commerce.

      Masson.—Life of Milton.

      McCulloch.—Literature of Political Economy.

      Morgan.—Phœnix Britannicus, London (1742).

      Notes and Queries.

      Pepys' Diary, Bohn edition.

      Prendergast.—The Cromwellian Settlement.

      Roscher.—Zur Geschichte der Englischer Volkswirtschaftslehre.

      Royal Society Transactions.

      Rushworth.—Historical Collection.

      Somers.—Tracts.

      Temple.—Works, edited by Swift.

      Thorpe.—Sale Catalogue.

      Thurloe.—State Papers, London (1742).

      Ward.—Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, London (1740).

      Wood.—Athenæ Oxonienses, edited by Birch.

      Worthington.—Diary (Cheetam Society Publications).

      Wren.—Parentalia, London (1750).

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      Bibliography of the Printed Works of Sir William Petty.

      In Petty' s manuscript remains in the British Museum, I have found, presumably in his own handwriting, the following list of his works. Some of them it is difficult to identify with those that are in print. (1) Analysis of the people and their wealth, (2) Expenses of a state and the branches of its revenues, (3) Weight of the Crown, (4) Art and methods of taxing the people, (5) The people and religions of the world, (6) The commercial world and the great emporium, (7) Observations on the births, burials and marriages of London, Paris and Dublin, (8) Multiplication of mankind, (9) Growth of London, and of uniting the English and Irish, (10) Of peace in religion.

      A collection of Petty's printed works is to be found in the library of Brasenose College, Oxford. I am indebted for a list of this collection to the kindness of Mr. Madan, of the Bodleian Library. To it I have been able to make a few additions:

      Advice of W.