The History of Banking - With a Comprehensive Account of the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Banks of England, Ireland, and Scotland #262753

Attempt to deteriorate the Coinage by Charles the First. Trial of the Pix. Among the instruments of civilization which the ingenuity and indus try of man have given to his species, not one has been so completely characterized by the elements of potency of effect and universality of application as money. No people is so barbarous as not to recognize its use none so daring as to contemplate its discontinuance.