An abstract of the Discourse on the late funds of the Million-act, Lottery-act, and Bank of England Together with proposals for the supplying their Majesties with money on easy terms, exempting the nobility and gentry, &c. from taxes, enlarging their yearly estates, and enriching all the subjects in the kingdom. Humbly offered and submitted to the consideration of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled. By J. B.

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An abstract of the Discourse on the late funds of the Million-act, Lottery-act, and Bank of England Together with proposals for the supplying their Majesties with money on easy terms, exempting the nobility and gentry, &c. from taxes, enlarging their yearly estates, and enriching all the subjects in the kingdom. Humbly offered and submitted to the consideration of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled. By J. B.
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Briscoe, John, fl. 1695.
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London :: [s.n.],
printed in the year, MDCXCIV. [1694]
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Bank of England -- Early works to 1800.
Finance -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Banks and banking -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"An abstract of the Discourse on the late funds of the Million-act, Lottery-act, and Bank of England Together with proposals for the supplying their Majesties with money on easy terms, exempting the nobility and gentry, &c. from taxes, enlarging their yearly estates, and enriching all the subjects in the kingdom. Humbly offered and submitted to the consideration of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled. By J. B." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29534.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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Answ. What Certainty had the Parliament that the Sub∣jects would advance their Money on any of the late Funds upon Survivorship, or upon the Lottery-Act, or Bank of

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England? there was only a Probability, that Men who had Money would accept of such advantageous Offers; and there is much more Reason to believe that Gentlemen will settle their Estates on these proposed Advantages.

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