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3 Note continued
In the infancy At an early of the Exchequer currency, Bills
were issued for sums as low as £10 or even £5.
Now it should have happened that they should have been
the practice of issuing such small notes should have
ceased, and the minimum note raised to and
continued at fixed at its present pitch of £100, is not
difficult to conceive. The form of the security could
naturally be adapted adapt itself to the convenience of the lenders
more especially as the lenders were individuals acting
on their own account,
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