Note 228 — Chapter II

Cf. on parliamentary restrictions of their trade, Edw. Eggleston in The Century, vol. xxviii. p. 252, etc. See on industries of the province, Palfrey, iv. 429; Lodge’s Eng. Colonies, 410, 411; also the tracts: Brief account of the state of the Province of Mass. Bay, civil and ecclesiastical, by a lover of his country (1717), and Melancholy circumstances of the Province (1719). Cf. Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 382. Sir Josiah Child in 1677 had expounded for the first time the restrictive system in his New Discourse of Trade, which was not, however, published in London till 1694, but was various times reprinted later. He called New England “the most prejudicial plantation to the kingdom of England,” inhabited as it was “by a sort of people called puritans.” Cf. John Adams’ Works, x. 328, 330, 332; Scott, Development of Constitutional Liberty, 208. Otis in his speech on the Writs of Assistance cites Child, as well as Joshua Gee’s Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Considered (London, 1729), which was the first to make evident the policy of making the colonies subserve the public revenue, as they already under the navigation acts bettered the private trade of the mother country. This book was reprinted at London in 1730, 1738, and at Glasgow in 1735, 1760, and in “a new edition, with many interesting notes and additions by a merchant,” in 1767. Cf. John Adams’ Works, x. 335, 350; Scott, Development of Constitutional Liberty (1882), 216.