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A state of the national debt, provided or unprovided for by Parliament, as it stood the 31st of December 1728, and the 31st of December 1729. Together with an Account of the Produce of the Sinking Fund in that Year, and to the Payment of what Debts contracted before the 25th of December 1716, the said Fund hath been applied. Also, An Account shewing how the Money given for the Service of the Year 1729 hath been disposed of, distinguished under the several Heads, until the 29th Day of January 1729, and the Parts thereof remaining unsatisfied, with the Deficiency thereupon. To which is added, a Copy of the Pension-Bill passed by the Commons, and rejected by the Lords.
Date: [1730]
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An essay upon loans: or, an argument proving that substantial funds settled by Parliament, with the Encouragement of Interests, and the Advances of Prompt Payment usually allow'd, will bring in loans of money to the Exchequer, in spight of all the conspiracies of parties to the contrary; while a Just, Honourable, and Punctual Performance on the part of the Government, supports the Credit of the Nation. By the author of the Essay upon credit.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCX. [1710]
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Extract from a manuscript on the finances of England. Which is to be published in French and English. By Vertaul. Translated from the third edition.
Vertaul.Date: 1799
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A proposal for granting relief to the several proprietors of the long and short annuities, redeemable debts, and money subscribers, (commonly call'd, the new, or additional capital of the South-Sea Company) ...
Date: 1721]
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A letter to Archibald Hutcheson, Esq; Member of Parliament for Rye in Sussex. Shewing the insufficiency Of His Scheme For the Payment of the Publick Debts. To which is added, A Scheme Presented to the House of Commons in February 1717, on Occasion of His Majesty's Speech, concerning the Reduction of the Debts: With a Vindication of the said Sheme, and State of the Coin and Credit, as it stood in March last. With proper Remarks on the Whole.
Date: 1718
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A letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the national debt. By Edward Tatham, D.D. Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.
Tatham, Edward, 1749-1834.Date: M DCC XCV. [1795]
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The pangs of credit: or, an argument to shew where it is most reasonable to bestow the two millions. In a plain view of the circumstances of the redeemable annuitants under two acts of Parliament, commonly called the Scheme-Act, and the Credit-Act. In a letter to a member of Parliament. By an orphan annuitant.
Orphan Annuitant.Date: 1722
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An examination of Mr. Pitt's plan for diminishing the public debts by means of a sinking fund.
Effingham, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 1747-1791.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]
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Hints; addressed to the public. Calculated to dispel the gloomy ideas which have been lately entertained of the state of our finances. By John Sinclair, Esq.
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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An abstract shewing the loss to the new subscribers to the South-Sea stock, at the several prices following; and the yearly profits on trade necessary to make good the said loss, on the Ingraftment of all the Redeemable Debts, which will make the Capital 28,500,000 l. and also on the Ingraftment of the Irredeemables, which will make the Capital 43,558,000 l. And these Calculations are made Computing Interest at the Rate of 4 l. per Cent. per Ann.
Hutcheson, Archibald, approximately 1659-1740.Date: 1720?]
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The decline & fall of the English system of finance. By Thomas Paine, author of Common sense, American crisis, Age of reason, &c. [One line of quotation]
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: 1796
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The naked and undisguis'd truth, plainly and faithfully told: what was the unhappy rise, which were the fatal causes, and who the wicked authors, of Great Britain's and Ireland's present Dreadful (and before unheard of) calamities. By a passionate lover of his country.
Passionate lover of his country.Date: [1721]
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Substance of observations on the state of the public finances of Great Britain, by Lord Rawdon, in a speech on the third reading of the bank loan bill in the House of Lords, on Thursday, June 9, 1791.
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826.Date: [1791]
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A scheme for preventing a further increase of the national debt and for reducing the same. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, &c. By Bourchier Cleeve, Esq;
Cleeve, Bourchier, 1715-1760.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]
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A proposal for liquidating 66,666,666 2/3 of the three per cents, By Converting the Land Tax into Permanent Annuity; with Cursory Observations. Humbly submitted to Both Houses of Parliament.
Ogilvie, James, Earl of Seafield, 1750-1811.Date: 1798
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A computation of the value of South-Sea stock, on the foot of the scheme as it now subsists. Made from the facts as they are stated by the Directors of the South-Sea Company, in the Accounts and Papers by Them laid before the House of Commons: And Four other States of the same, on the Suppositions in the Titles of the said States respectively mentioned. And Also, Four other States marked A, B, C, D. The State A, shewing, That the Scheme might have been Executed, without carrying the Price of the Stock higher than 150 l. per Cent. The other Three States shew the Value of South-Sea Stock at the respective Periods of Time, and on the several Suppositions in the Titles of the said States mentioned, as the Execution of this Scheme was at first projected. With some remarks relating to these matters. By Archibald Hutcheson, of the Middle-Temple, London, Esq; and Member of Parliament for Hasting, in Sussex.
Hutcheson, Archibald, approximately 1659-1740.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXX. [1720] [i.e.1721]
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Political tracts. Part the first. Containing a proposal for the liquidation of the national debt. An explanation of the proposal. An appendix. Containing a narrative of proceedings thereon at various public meetings. By Sir Francis Blake, Bart.
Blake, Francis, Sir, 1738?-1818.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788] [1789]
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Additional observations on the nature and value of civil liberty, and the war with America: also observations on schemes for raising money by public loans; an historical deduction and analysis of the national debt; and a brief account of the debts and resources of France. By Richard Price, D. D. F. R. S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]
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The case of the annuitants and proprietors of the redeemable debts. In a letter to the author of the several calculations on South-Sea stock. By Eustace Budgell, Esq;
Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]
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A compleat collection of the protests of the Lords during this last session of parliament.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]
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A letter to the Prince of Wales, on a second application to Parliament, to discharge debts wantonly contracted since May, 1787.
Miles, William Augustus, 1753?-1817.Date: [1795]
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A proposal for the liquidation of the national debt; the abolition of tythes; and the reform of the church revenue.
Blake, Francis, Sir, 1738?-1818.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
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Observations on the credit and finances of Great Britain; In reply to the thoughts of the Earl of Lauderdale, and the Appeal of Mr. Morgan. By Daniel Wakefield, Esq.
Wakefield, Daniel, 1776-1846.Date: 1797
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An examination of Mr. Pitt's plan for diminishing the public debts, by means of a sinking fund. Part II.
Effingham, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 1747-1791.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]
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An examination and explanation of the South-Sea Company's scheme, For taking in the Publick Debts. Shewing, That it is not encouraging to those who shall become Proprietors of the engrafted Stock, to join with the present Proprietors of the Company, at any advanced Price. And that it is against the Interest of those Proprietors, who shall remain with their Stock till they are paid off by the Government, that the Company should make annually greater Dividends than their Profits will warrant. With some National Considerations and useful Observations.
Date: 1720

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Extract from a manuscript on the finances of England. Which is to be published in French and English. By Vertaul. Translated from the third edition.

A proposal for granting relief to the several proprietors of the long and short annuities, redeemable debts, and money subscribers, (commonly call'd, the new, or additional capital of the South-Sea Company) ...

A letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the national debt. By Edward Tatham, D.D. Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.

An examination of Mr. Pitt's plan for diminishing the public debts by means of a sinking fund.

Hints; addressed to the public. Calculated to dispel the gloomy ideas which have been lately entertained of the state of our finances. By John Sinclair, Esq.

The decline & fall of the English system of finance. By Thomas Paine, author of Common sense, American crisis, Age of reason, &c. [One line of quotation]

The naked and undisguis'd truth, plainly and faithfully told: what was the unhappy rise, which were the fatal causes, and who the wicked authors, of Great Britain's and Ireland's present Dreadful (and before unheard of) calamities. By a passionate lover of his country.

Substance of observations on the state of the public finances of Great Britain, by Lord Rawdon, in a speech on the third reading of the bank loan bill in the House of Lords, on Thursday, June 9, 1791.

A scheme for preventing a further increase of the national debt and for reducing the same. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, &c. By Bourchier Cleeve, Esq;

A proposal for liquidating 66,666,666 2/3 of the three per cents, By Converting the Land Tax into Permanent Annuity; with Cursory Observations. Humbly submitted to Both Houses of Parliament.

Political tracts. Part the first. Containing a proposal for the liquidation of the national debt. An explanation of the proposal. An appendix. Containing a narrative of proceedings thereon at various public meetings. By Sir Francis Blake, Bart.

The case of the annuitants and proprietors of the redeemable debts. In a letter to the author of the several calculations on South-Sea stock. By Eustace Budgell, Esq;

A compleat collection of the protests of the Lords during this last session of parliament.

A letter to the Prince of Wales, on a second application to Parliament, to discharge debts wantonly contracted since May, 1787.

A proposal for the liquidation of the national debt; the abolition of tythes; and the reform of the church revenue.

Observations on the credit and finances of Great Britain; In reply to the thoughts of the Earl of Lauderdale, and the Appeal of Mr. Morgan. By Daniel Wakefield, Esq.

An examination of Mr. Pitt's plan for diminishing the public debts, by means of a sinking fund. Part II.