wunder · LibrarySECTION VI. Finance and Foreign Trade
Read in the Wunder reader — freeFINANCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
1. Act abolishing Tenure by Knight Service, etc., 1660 670
2. Navigation Act, 1660 670
3. Proposals for Free Exportation of Gold and Silver, 1660 671
4. An Attack on the Navigation Act, c. 1663 672
5. Free Coinage at the Mint Proclaimed, 1666 674
6. The East India Company and the Interlopers, 1684 675
7. Foundation of the Bank of England, 1694 676
8. The Need for the Recoinage of 1696 677
9. Speech by Sir Robert Walpole on the Salt Duties, 1732 678
10. Pitt's Sinking Fund Act, 1786 679
11. The Suspension of Cash Payments, 1797 681
12. Pitt's Speech on the Income Tax, 1798 683
13. Foreign Trade in the early Nineteenth Century, 1812 689
14. Debate on the Corn Laws, 1815 692
15. The Corn Law of 1815 697
16. Free Trade Petition, 1820 698
17. The Foundation of the Anti-Corn-Law League, 1839 701
18. The Bank Charter Act, 1844 702
19. Debate on the Corn Laws, 1846 705
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