One of the very earliest land bank/mutual bank documents is available online: The Key of Wealth: Or, A New Way for Improving of Trade, by William Potter (1650).
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1741: Petition of London Merchants against the Land Bank
THE PETITION OF LONDON MERCHANTS TO PARLIAMENT,11 FEBRUARY 1741 A petition of the several merchants of London, and others, whose names are thereunto subscribed, in behalf of themselves, and great numbers of merchants, traders, and […]
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1740: A Defense of the Land Bank
A LETTER TO THE MERCHANT IN LONDON TO WHOM IS DIRECTED A PRINTED LETTER RELATING TO THE MANUFACTORY UNDERTAKING,27 FEBRUARY 1740 I take the Freedom to send you and them the following Remarks on that […]
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Reading around / Dyer D. Lum’s Alarm
I’ve been reading pretty broadly lately, pulling together articles related to the Liberty archive project and Utopia, OH, the Josiah Warren anthology. That’s taken me into the pages of The Egoist, where Benjamin Tucker, Bolton […]