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A scheme for payment of the sum of 49,301,855 £. 6 s. 1 d. 1/2 : being the national debt of Great-Britain, as it stood the 31st of Dec. 1730, in a few years, without making any additional tax on the subject : which, if enacted into a law, will be of infinite service to the merchants trading to the West Indies; infallibly secure our possessions of Gibralter and the island of Minorca; totally abolish smuggling; and be of singular advantage to the woollen manufactory : humbly offered to the consideration of the British Parliament.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Joseph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Debts, Public--Great Britain.
- Debts, Public.
- Criminals.
- Punishment.
- Galleys.
- Great Britain.
- Galleys--Great Britain.
- Criminals--Great Britain--Punishment.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 26 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- ket. l-he e.'s inTh (3) 1732 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Wilford ..., 1732.
- Notes:
- Published anonymously. Attributed to Joseph Davies; sometimes attributed to John Davies. Cf. ESTC.
- Signatures: [A]1 B-D⁴ E1.
- Head-piece; initial.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, N21521
- Hanson, L.W. Contemporary printed sources for British and Irish economic history, 1701-1750, 4380
- OCLC:
- 30677078
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