Duckenfield, Mark 　著

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The Rise of the Gold Standard, 1660–1819; Chapter 1 21 May 1660: Resolution of the House of Commons to prohibit the Exportation of Money and Bullion from England; Chapter 2 11 December 1660: Excerpt from a Report of His Majesty’s Council of Trade advocating to the King the Execution of Provisions enabling the free Exportation of Gold and Silver from England; Chapter 3 20 December 1662: ‘An Act to prevent the Inconvenience arising by melting the Silver Coin of this Realm’; Chapter 4 19 May 1663: Excerpt from the Diary of Samuel Pepys; Chapter 5 1 August 1663: Excerpt from ‘An Act for the Encouragement of Trade’; Chapter 6 20 December 1666: ‘An Act for Encourageing of Coynage’; Chapter 7 12–13 June, 19–20 June, 10–12 October 1667: Excerpt from the Diary of Samuel Pepys; Chapter 8 1672, undated]: ‘An Act for continuing a former Act concerning Coynage’; Chapter 9 1674, undated]: Statement issued by the English Government in Response to Reports about large Amounts of Bullion exported from England by the East India Company; Chapter 10 1676, undated]: ‘The Mystery of the new fashioned Goldsmiths or Bankers: their Rise, Growth, State, and Decay, discovered in a Merchant’s Letter to a Country Gent who desired to bind his Son Apprentice to a Goldsmith’; Chapter 11 9 April 1690: Note of a Petition from London Goldsmiths to the House of Commons, complaining that the Exportation of large Quantities of Silver from England into France was placing an undue Burden upon them; Chapter 12 8 May 1690: House of Commons Committee Report issued in Response to the Petition of the previous Month from the Working Goldsmiths of London concerning the Exportation of large Quantities of Silver from England to France and the undue Burden that this was placing upon Working Goldsmiths; Chapter 13 6 December 1690: ‘Observations on the Bill against the Exportation of Gold and Silver, and melting down the Coin of the Realm’, delivered at the Bar of the House of Lords by a Group of prominent London Merc