This edition brings together the most important English language tracts and pamphlets and other material on the origins and development of private banking, joint stock banking, central banking and other important related questions.
1. 1668 Discourse shewing the many Advantages which will accrue to this Kingdom by the abatement of Usury, 2. 1669 Usury at Six per Cent examined and found unjustly charged by Sir Thomas Culpepper, 3. 1670 Necessity of Abating Usury Reasserted, 4. 1793 Select Committee Report on the Present State of Commercial Credit, 5. 1797 Reports from the Committees of Secrecy on the Outstanding Demands of the Bank of England, 6. 1816 Defence of Usury, 7. 1839 The Currency: Banking
