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THESE studies vary greatly in length and purpose. The first three, on the factor or agent, on interloping and the staple, and on the foreign trade of provincial ports, are not meant to be in any sense definitive. They are merely preliminary surveys of what seem to me to be interesting and neglected topics. My hope is that their publication may persuade others to treat these topics more fully. The last study, on sugar and the Elizabethans, is merely a frivolous excursion into the no-man's-land that lies between economic and social history; as such it exposes the intruder to sniping from both sides.- T.S. Willan
