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GUIDES

Shoes and ships and sealing-wax : an illustrated history of the Board of Trade, 1786-1986
by Foreman, Susan. 1986
Officials of the Boards of Trade, 1660-1870
by Sainty, John Christopher. 1974
Lists of the records of the Treasury, the Paymaster General's Office, the Exchequer and Audit Department and the Board of Trade, to 1837 : preserved in the Public Record Office
1963