History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth, Parts 2-3; Part 8William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... gold of full tale and full weight and fineness , sums enormous which it had borrowed in depreciated paper . From the time when the paper began to depreciate , to the time when the bullion committee proposed that the bank should be ...
... gold of full tale and full weight and fineness , sums enormous which it had borrowed in depreciated paper . From the time when the paper began to depreciate , to the time when the bullion committee proposed that the bank should be ...
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William Cobbett. 1 there was no market price of gold ; because there was no deposit to which the people could go to de- mand gold in exchange for the paper . Guineas were sold , it is true ; but the seller sold with all the disadvantages ...
William Cobbett. 1 there was no market price of gold ; because there was no deposit to which the people could go to de- mand gold in exchange for the paper . Guineas were sold , it is true ; but the seller sold with all the disadvantages ...
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... gold and another price for paper . Landlords , in divers instances , seeing that the progress of the depreciation would soon rob them of the whole of their rents , began to make specific contracts to prevent their estates arriving at ...
... gold and another price for paper . Landlords , in divers instances , seeing that the progress of the depreciation would soon rob them of the whole of their rents , began to make specific contracts to prevent their estates arriving at ...
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... gold payments on the part of the landlords would soon produce two prices openly in all the pecuniary transac- tions of life ; they saw that gold would become the medium of those transactions between man and man ; that the taxes would be ...
... gold payments on the part of the landlords would soon produce two prices openly in all the pecuniary transac- tions of life ; they saw that gold would become the medium of those transactions between man and man ; that the taxes would be ...
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... gold coin ; and it then enabled tenants to refuse to pay their landlords in gold ; and , in case of distraint , to replevy the goods taken in distress , after tendering the land- lord payment in bank notes ! Thus , on the 3d of May ...
... gold coin ; and it then enabled tenants to refuse to pay their landlords in gold ; and , in case of distraint , to replevy the goods taken in distress , after tendering the land- lord payment in bank notes ! Thus , on the 3d of May ...
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