Economics of Foreign Trade.- Cope (Sir Walter, master of the court of wards, 1553?-1614) Enchiridion. Certaine breife Remonstrances offered unto his Matie... Touching Divers Inconveniences growne into the publique weale By meanes of The Netherlandes and our owne Company of Merchant Venturers..., manuscript in one hand in two different styles (title and subtitles in in a fine cursive and text in Secretary hand), title and 17pp., title loose, slightly browned, disbound, [no work by Walter Cope in ESTC], , folio, 1613.

⁂ ?An unknown work by a prominent official in the governments of Elizabeth I and James I. The manuscript poses a number of economic problems with suggested ways of reforming and dealing with them. It includes the over valuation of money, best way of making money from foreign trade, sales of cloth and wool etc.

Walter Cope became a gentleman usher to William Cecil, Lord Burghley and later served his son, Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury. Cope made large sums of money as master of the court of wards and was involved in a wide series of financial speculations, not all of them successful. He was also an investor in a number of overseas trading companies, including the Virginia and East India companies, and was much concerned with making the highest of financial returns from his investments.

Saleroom notice: This may not be unknown, there may be a copy at the Bodleian amongst the North Family Paper