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  EEBO-TCP (Phase 2)
  
  A small table to find the day of the month for ever Which may be graven upon a piece of coine, the case of a watch, a tobaccho-box, or any such like. Very usefull for men of all sorts and qualities, to carry about them. Invented, and at first intended onely for private use, by W. Potter.
  Date of publication:
  1655
  

  Author(s):

  Potter, William.
  Description:
  Title page is illustrated with a table. Reproduction of the original at the British Library.
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  Humble proposalls to the honorable the Councell for Trade and all merchants and others who desire to improve their estates, shevving what particulars if enacted by Parliament would (as with due submission is conceived) conduce to advance trade, imploy the poore, diminish interest, improve publique revenues; and prevent the cruelty of creditors, and the injustice of debtors. Tending (likewise) speedily to promote the enterprise discovered in a late treatise, entituled, The key of wealth, and in an abstract thereof, called, The trades-man's jewel.
  Date of publication:
  1651
  

  Author(s):

  Potter, William.
  Description:
  Preface signed by W. Potter. Reproduction of the original at the British Library.
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  The key of wealth or, A new vvay, for improving of trade : lawfull, easie, safe and effectuall : shewing how a few tradesmen agreeing together, may both double their stocks, and the increase thereof, without 1. Paying any interest. 2. Great difficulty or hazard. 3. Advance of money. 4. Staying for materialls. 5. Prejudice to any trade, or person. 6. Incurring any other inconvenience. In such sort, as both they and all others (though never so poore) who are in a way of trading, may 1. multiply their returnes. 2. Deale onely for ready pay. 3. Much under-sell others. 4. Put the whole nation upon this practice. 5. Gain notwithstanding more then ordinary. 6. Desist when they please without damage. And so, as the same shall tend much to 1. Enrich the people of this land. 2. Disperse the money hoarded up. ... 23. Incorporate the whole strength of England. 24. Take away advantages of opposition. All which in this treatise in conceived by judicious men to be fully proved, doubts resolved, and objections either answered or prevented.
  Date of publication:
  1650
  

  Author(s):

  Potter, William.
  Description:
  Dedication signed: William Potter. Annotation on Thomason copy: "September 15th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  The trades-man's jevvel: or a safe, easie, speedy and effectual means, for the incredible advancement of trade, and multiplication of riches; shewing how men of indifferent estates, may abundantly increase both their own and other mens trading and riches, without parting with money, or any stock out of their own hands: by making their bills to become current instead of money, and frequently to revolve through their hands, with as much in money as the sums therein mentioned do amount unto.
  Date of publication:
  1650
  

  Author(s):

  Potter, William.
  Description:
  Signed on p.4: W. Potter. Annotation on Thomason copy: "8ber. [i.e. October] 25". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  Truths right-side tvrned upwards, or, Armies vindication against an aspersion of rebellion and tyrannie cast upon them in several books, whereof one subscribed by divers ministers in the province of London, another by Mr. Geree, &c : not onely cleering the case of the armie to be just, but retorting the force of the arguments of their opposers upon themselves / by William Potter.
  Date of publication:
  1649
  

  Author(s):

  Potter, William. ; Geree, John, 1601?-1649.
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  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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