A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 - Great Britain |
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Page 6
... supply of 1,440,000l . and 9000 men , to be raised early to recruit the Scottish regiments abroad , and an act for erecting a public bank at Edinburgh . Then the parliament was adjourned to the 7th of November . In Ireland , sir Henry ...
... supply of 1,440,000l . and 9000 men , to be raised early to recruit the Scottish regiments abroad , and an act for erecting a public bank at Edinburgh . Then the parliament was adjourned to the 7th of November . In Ireland , sir Henry ...
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... supplies , at least as considerable for the service of this year , as those which had been granted in the last session , and had proved very deficient ; he complained that the precarious condition of the civil list was such , that it ...
... supplies , at least as considerable for the service of this year , as those which had been granted in the last session , and had proved very deficient ; he complained that the precarious condition of the civil list was such , that it ...
Page 10
... supply for the year 1696 , and the commons readily fixed it by their vote to 5,240,8531 .; they also settled a fund for rais- ing 500,000l . for the civil list , and 15,000l . a - year for the French protestants . The question ...
... supply for the year 1696 , and the commons readily fixed it by their vote to 5,240,8531 .; they also settled a fund for rais- ing 500,000l . for the civil list , and 15,000l . a - year for the French protestants . The question ...
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... supplies , which were granted not only with liberality , but even with profusion , a new na- tional bank was created by an act of parliament , for the purpose of raising money for the use of govern ment ; it was called the land bank ...
... supplies , which were granted not only with liberality , but even with profusion , a new na- tional bank was created by an act of parliament , for the purpose of raising money for the use of govern ment ; it was called the land bank ...
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... supply was slow , and the new money was so generally kept up ,. that little of it appeared . Lewis XIV . concludes privately a separate peace with the duke of Savoy , while his minister count d'Avaux , pressed the king of Sweden to ...
... supply was slow , and the new money was so generally kept up ,. that little of it appeared . Lewis XIV . concludes privately a separate peace with the duke of Savoy , while his minister count d'Avaux , pressed the king of Sweden to ...
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