English Economic History, Select Documents

by P. A. Brown (Editor), R. H. Tawney (Editor), A. E. Bland (Editor)

Overview

This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

CONTENTS (abridged list)
SECTION I THE EARLY ENGLISH MANOR AND BOROUGH
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SECTION VI FINANCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
1. Act abolishing Tenure by Knight Service, etc., 1660
2. Navigation Act, 1660
3. Proposals for Free Exportation of Gold and Silver, 1660
4. An Attack on the Navigation Act, c. 1663
5. Free Coinage at the Mint Proclaimed, 1666
6. The East India Company and the Interlopers, 1684
7. Foundation of the Bank of England, 1694
8. The Need for the Recoinage of 1696
9. Speech by Sir Robert Walpole on the Salt Duties, 1732
10. Pitt's Sinking Fund Act, 1786
11. The Suspension of Cash Payments, 1797
12. Pitt's Speech on the Income Tax, 1798
13. Foreign Trade in the early Nineteenth Century, 1812
14. Debate on the Corn Laws, 1815
15. The Corn Law of 1815
16. Free Trade Petition, 1820
17. The Foundation of the Anti-Corn-Law League, 1839
18. The Bank Charter Act, 1844
19. Debate on the Corn Laws, 1846

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