Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part I: The institutional and economic context

2. England’s wartime system of public finance

3. The inception of the Bank of England

4. Parliamentary measures against clipping and bullion exports, 1689-95

5. The growing problem of war remittances

6. Land-bank projects, 1694-95

Part II: The political and policy narrative

7. The administrative debate on the state of the currency, September–November 1695

8. The act for remedying the ill state of the coin, November 1695–January 1696

9. Banking projects and public finance, early 1696

10. Guineas and the National Land Bank, February–April 1696

11. Connecting the dots: monetary policies as means to political ends

12. Monetary and financial crisis in England and the plight of the English army in Flanders, spring – summer 1696

13. Concluding remarks

Index

About the Author

Richard A. Kleer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Regina, Canada.