The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... interests of the planters were properly safeguarded , the bill would not receive the royal assent , but the fishing interest was too strong , and Guy's proviso was decisively rejected . This speech of the Secretary of State is ...
... interests of the planters were properly safeguarded , the bill would not receive the royal assent , but the fishing interest was too strong , and Guy's proviso was decisively rejected . This speech of the Secretary of State is ...
Page 585
... interests by requiring that all ships laden with sugar and bound for northern Europe should touch at a British port , while ships going to ports south of Cape Finisterre had to call at a British port before returning across the Atlantic ...
... interests by requiring that all ships laden with sugar and bound for northern Europe should touch at a British port , while ships going to ports south of Cape Finisterre had to call at a British port before returning across the Atlantic ...
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... interests in the colonies them- selves . For an example of the difficulty of reconciling the interests of the colonies with those of the mother country reference must be made to the iron industry . In the first part of the eighteenth ...
... interests in the colonies them- selves . For an example of the difficulty of reconciling the interests of the colonies with those of the mother country reference must be made to the iron industry . In the first part of the eighteenth ...
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