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Annuity Notes

Note continued

Whether Government saw was aware of this at the time, is a
point which at prese this time of day it might
perhaps be difficult to ascertain , They might see
it but not be able to profit by it. Improvement in Exchequer Notes If [+] [+] in times such as those ub such a reign as of King William or Queen Anne, the connected
circle of London money'd men concerned in insisting
upon sm large sums in preference to small sums ,
it would be difficult for Government Ministers to resist: —
pressed by the exigencies of the moment , it might
have been hazardous and perhaps impracticable , to
want for the success if an experiment , upon a the more
extended scale. As to the money'd men some would
be aware of this, others not: witness the directors
Bank, who guided it should sum rather by
habit than reflection , , for such a length
of time, to give that extension to the circle of customers
for this paper , which when given at last
relieved them from their embarassments , and seems
to have proved that the scarcity which had produced
these embarassments might - as properly be
stated a scarcity of small notes , as a scarcity
of cash.

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Identifier: | JB/002/328/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	002	Main Headings	Annuity Notes
Folio number	328	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	Note continued
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	Recto"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	E4
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks	1798 A<…>
Marginals		Paper Producer	Frances Wright
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1067
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