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Banks and banking - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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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 Britain | Date: 1710 [i.e. 1711]]
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    A discourse concerning banks

    Janssen, Theodore, Sir, 1658?-1748. | Date: 1720
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    Considerations on the continuance of the slave trade , and of The use of slaves in the British colonies.

    | Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]
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    Reasons offer'd against the continuance of the Bank : in a letter to a member of Parliament.

    | Date: 1707
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