Treasury's Reform Aimed to Restore Public Credit in 1709
The memorandum details plans to centralize the revenue at the Treasury and ensure regular payments, expand funds via new annuities, and adjust coinage to ease shortages. It notes Edicts freeing payments from cash alone, bank lending to cover current expenses, and the South Sea bullion enabling a general coinage reform to stabilize finances for the 1709 campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Paris
France
Monsieur Chamillart
Oudenard
Lislé
M. Demarets
Qudenard
Lisle
Feoinene
Peru
Pound Sterling Valued Relative to Livres in Time
A note records currency value stating Pound Sterling was at that time about 14 Livres, indicating exchange rate or parallel pricing during the period.
Scurvy Cure Sold At Laurence Pountney Lane
A young woman at a Pale-Ale-house in Rowid-Cure St Martin’s-le-Grand suffers cholick and indigestion blamed on scorbutic causes. John Moore apothecary at the Pestle and Mortar, Lawrence Pountney’s Lane, offers Antiscorbutic pills and spirits said to cure scurvy by purging and restoring body juices. Advertises symptoms and miraculous effects of his medicines.
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Rowid
St. Martin’s-lee Grand
John Moore
Lawrence Pountney’s Lane
Cannon Street
Moore
Jon Moone
Paris
London Gossip and Society News from Windsor to London
Her Majesty dines with the Earl of Godolphin at Windsor next week. Marriage at Hampton Court unites Christopher Ashe and Miss Ambrose. Lady Evelyn gives birth to a daughter. Earl of Pontefract sails for Holland toward Orange Court. Hunter marries Miss Bosanquet at Caledon Street Church. reception at Pentack's. Guild Hall ratifies new Sheriffs for the City. Death of Mr Godfrey the bacon butcher leaves fortune to kin. Candidates named for St Thomas's Hospital post after Dr Plumpre resigns.
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Earl of Godolphin
Windsor
Christopher Ashe
Preston
Lancashire
Esy
Hampton Court
Ambrose
John Ambrose
Moulfey
Surrey
John Evelyn
Erig
Royal
Prince of Wales
Helston
Cornwall
Grosvenor Square
Yellercay
Earl of
Prince and Princess of
Orange
Hunter
Esg
Bosanquet
Caleman Street
Pentack’s
Abchurch Lane
Guildhall
William Rous
Salter
Benjamin Rawling
City of London
Middlesex
Aleconners
Islington
Godfrey
Plumprre
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Benjamin Hoadley
Nesbit
Leatherland
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