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In this excellent tract, written by way of letter to a friend, and subscribed at the end J. B. it is particu¬larized by what toys, trifles, salvatore ferragamo saleand unnecessary wares transported from France into England, they receive of us tbe yearly value of above six-and-twenty-hundred thousand-pounds; and that, by the commodities ex¬ported from England to France, we receive not above ten hundred thousand pounds a year of them: so that our trade with France is at least sixteen hundred thou¬sand pounds per annum clear loss to this kingdom. The author proposes many ways whereby we may re¬cover this loss, and retrieve ourselves, if our infatuating indolence wiil give us leave. Otherwise France will continue to flourish by our sloth, to grow wise by our folly, proud by our excels, and powerful by our trea¬sure, till diey become ourferragamo sale destruction. For as the middle region of the air is wont to frame its thunder, hail, and other meteors against the earth, out of the ex¬halations it draws from the earth: so France, out of the riches it gathers from England, and other neigh¬bouring dominions, raises formidable armies and potent fleets to invade them. A Memento for English Protestants; con¬taining the following particulars, viz. an epitome of the massacre in Piedmont: an epitome of the French massacre: an epitome of the Irish mas¬sacre. A ferragamo shoesspeech of Pope Sixtus Quintus. A collection of the most remarkable passages of Queen Marys reign. Together with a preface, by way of answer to that part of the compen¬dium, which reflects on the Bishop of Lincolns late book. 1680. (Quarto, in thirty leaves.)