§ 9. Survey of commercial progress during these wars

[39] See note 13, p. [247,] on Banking and the Stop of the Exchequer.

[40] See also my Commerce in Europe, pp. 137–147.

CHAPTER VI MANUFACTURES AND MINING

§ 1. Circumstances favourable to English manufactures

§ 2. Wool trade. Home manufactures. Dyeing

[41] This Company, by charters from James I. in 1604 and 1617, had the exclusive privilege of exporting the woollen cloths of England to the Netherlands and Germany. It included some 4000 merchants.

§ 3. Other influences favourable to England. The Huguenot immigration

[42] Anderson’s Chron. of Commerce, ii. 569.