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Old England concerns in a moral and monetary treatise
A letter from London discusses distrust of daily papers, praise for a reforming minister, and fear of corruption. It outlines a proposed monetary remedy to align nominal and intrinsic coin values, replacing the old system with weight based coinage and new Stirling weight names, plus calls for careful public pricing tables and proclamations.
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