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A proposal for selling part of the forest lands and chaces, and disposing of the produce towards the discharge of that part of the national debt, due to the Bank of England; and for the establishment of a national bank; by which there wou'd be a saving to the public of one per cent. on so much of the national debt, as is immediately redeemable by Parliament ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection HJ8623 .E5 1763
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Debts, Public--Great Britain.
- Debts, Public.
- Great Britain.
- Finance--Great Britain.
- Finance.
- Banks and banking--Great Britain.
- Banks and banking.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 33 pages, 1 unnumbered page (the final page blank) ; 22 cm (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- London : T. Payne, 1763.
- Notes:
- Credited to John Perceval, 2d earl of Egmont (cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 44, p. 372) The author's "Essay on the means of discharging the public debt", also published in 1763, appears to be an expansion or revision of the "Proposal", which is referred to in the preface to the "Essay" as "the first part of this essay".
- OCLC:
- 6786257
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