Merchants [ Commerce ]
… criteria for this category should not just simply relate to income, but to shared values concerning property, industry, improvement, leisure or fashion. Historians have therefore presented two different versions of the middling sort, those … and exchange rates came through people and through print. Business periodicals, such as John Houghton’s A collection of Improvement of Husbandry and Trade (1692-1793) and Sun Fire Office’s British Mercury (1710-15) brought various forms of …
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