Banks and banking - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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A letter of thanks from the author of the Comparison between the proposals of the Bank and the South-Sea, &c to the author of the Argument, shewing the disadvantage which will accrue to the publick, from obliging the South-Sea to fix what capital stock they will give the annuitants.
John TrenchardDate: [1720?]
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Universal mercantile tables, containing upwards of five thousand calculations in decimals the integer and vulgar fraction being given With their application to exchange, interest, brokerage, casting up of integers, mensuration of superficies and solids, &c. Including all the probable variations that can happen. To which is added, a treatise on book-keeping, with a new mode of keeping the waste-book, journal, and cash account in one book, by which an account of the stock sold (tho' in small quantities) can be kept with the same trouble that you would debit the buyer. Containing also, the securest method of making insurance, &c. By Robert Dickinson, accountant.
Dickinson, Robert, accountant.Date: 1783
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Proposals for restoring credit : for making the Bank of England more useful and profitable, for relieving the sufferers of the South-Sea Company, for the benefit of that of the East-India, and for raising the value of the land-interest of Great Britain : humbly offered to the consideration of both houses of Parliament.
Date: 1721
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An Act for enabling and obliging the Bank of England, for the time therein mentioned, to exchange all Exchequer bills for ready money upon demand and to disable any person to be governor, deputy-governor, or director of the Bank of England, and a director of the East-India Company, at the same time.
Great BritainDate: 1710 [i.e. 1711]]
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A discourse concerning banks
Janssen, Theodore, Sir, 1658?-1748.Date: 1720