John Wheeler, c.1553-1611.
Early English Mercantilist, of humble origins,
rose to become a wealthy businessman and leading citizen of Great Yarmouth and
member of parliament. Wheeler forged his career in overseas commerce,
rising to become Secretary of the Society of Merchant Adventurers around 1602.
Wheeler was a promoter of low interest policies and of exclusive rights in
charter company trade. Wheeler's Treatise on Commerce, was written to laud the superiority of
the corporate structure of the Society of Merchant Adventurers (who monopolized
the cloth trade) versus the individual merchant teams of the Merchant
Staplers (of the wool trade). It was written as a response to Thomas Milles
and Thomas Malynes's attacks on the SMA.
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Major Works of Jean Wheeler
- Treatise on Commerce, wherein are shewed the commodities arising by a
well ordered, and ruled trade, such as that of the Societie of Merchantes
Adventurers
is proved to be, written principallie for the better information of
those who doubt of the necessarienesse of the said Societie in the state
of the realme of England, 1601. -
extracts,
preview
- The Lawes, Customes and Ordinances of the Fellowshippe of
Merchantes Adventurers of the Realme of England, 1608
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Resources on Jean Wheeler
- "Wheeler,
John" in R.H. Inglis Palgrave, editor,
1894-1899, Dictionary of Political Economy
[1918 ed.]
- "Wheeler,
John" in Leslie Stephen & Stephen Lee, editor, 1885-1901
Dictionary of National Biography [1908-09 ed]
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The Merchant Adventurers of England: their laws and ordinances with other
documents by W. E. Lingelbach, 1902 [bk]
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Frontispiece
of the Treatise
- Wikpedia
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