William Potter’s “Key of Wealth”

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 other inhabitants, in the province of the Massachusets Bay, in America, was presented to the House, and read; setting forth, that while his Majesty and this House have exerted their authority and utmost care, not only to prevent the increase of paper money in America, but even to sink and discharge what has already issued under the publick authority, by virtue of acts of assembly […]

PROSPECTUS OF THE LAND BANKOR MANUFACTORY COMPANY.__________________________ THE LAND BANK OR MANUFACTORY SCHEME. Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. In order to Redress the distressing Circumstances which the Trade of this Province labours under for want of a Medium, other Methods having failed, it is proposed to set up a Bank on Land Security, no Person to be admitted but such as dwell in this Province, and hath a Real Estate therein. I. THE Stock to be One Hundred and fifty Thousand Pounds Lawful Money; no man to subscribe for more than Two Thousand Pounds, and none less […]

[ezcol_2third] The radical literature that any of us are actually familiar with always seems to be just a drop in the bucket. There are masses of largely ephemeral publications in every language, and all of the advances in digital archiving have only really begun to make any sort of dent in the work to be done. We can’t ignore all that ephemera, unless we’re content with a sort of abstract, top-down understanding of our traditions. After all, for every Proudhon, there were a dozen Greenes and Langlois, and for every one of them there were dozens of Junquas and Blackers, […]