Joseph Trevers

Joseph Trevers is a little-known English author associated with An Essay to the Restoring of our Decayed Trade, a work published in London in the late 1670s. Library and catalog records, including Project Gutenberg and scholarly bibliographic sources, identify him as the author of this treatise, but they preserve very little personal information about his life.

The book argues that England’s prosperity depended heavily on protecting its wool and cloth trade, and it criticizes smuggling, weak enforcement, and abuses by officials. That makes Trevers interesting not because much is known about him as a person, but because his writing captures the concerns of merchants and policymakers in his time.

Since reliable biographical details about Trevers himself are scarce, he is remembered mainly through this surviving work rather than through a well-documented life story. For readers interested in early economic writing, he offers a small but revealing window into the commercial debates of 17th-century England.