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Experimented proposals : how the King may have money to pay and maintain his fleets with ease to his people, London may be rebuilt and all proprietors satisfied, money be lent at six per cent on pawns, and the fishing-trade set up ... and all this without altering, straining, or thwarting any of our laws or customes now in use /

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Main Author:	Ford, Edward, Sir, 1605-1670
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Credit > Early works to 1800. Paper money > Great Britain > Early works to 1800. Great Britain > Economic conditions > 17th century. Electronic books.
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