| Narcissus Luttrell - Great Britain - 1857 - 738 pages
...Holland to buy up quantities of their best commodities, and by noon had sold to the value of 1-t.000^. Yesterday the bank of England held a general court,...money out of the exchequer, were offered guineas at 22*., who refused to take them but at 2 1s. fid. (by reason the clerks of the customes and excise yesterday... | |
| Narcissus Luttrell - Great Britain - 1857 - 734 pages
...Holland to buy up quantities of their best commodities, and by noon had sold to the value of l4,oool. Yesterday the bank of England held a general court,...resolved that a dividend of "jl. per cent, should bo paid to each subscriber before the end of October. Capt. Warren, who was goeing commodore of the... | |
| F. A. Hayek - Political Science - 1991 - 400 pages
...prepared for using the guinea as the standard coin. 'This day', says Luttrell on 22 September 1698, 'the goldsmiths that went to receive money out of the Exchequer were offered guineas at 22s. 6d. (by reason of the clerks of the customs and excise yesterday would take them for no more)... | |
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