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. 1797 a) Act to remove Doubts respecting Promissory Notes for Payment of Sums under five Pounds, b) Act for confirming the Restriction on Payments of Cash by the Bank, 2. 1801 Influence of the Stoppage of Issues in Specie at the Bank of England, on the Prices of Provisions and other Commodities, 3. 1801 Observations on the Publication of Walter Boyd, M.P., 4. 1802 Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain, 5. 1810 Report from the Select Committee on the High Price of Gold Bullion, 6. 1819 Reports from the Secret Committee on the Expediency of the Bank resuming Cash Payments, 7. 1804 Effects of the Bank Restrictions
