Chapter XIV: Section VI: Finance and Foreign Trade

1. Act abolishing Tenure by Knight Service, etc., 1660 670

2. Navigation Act, 1660 670

3. Proposals for Free Exportation of Gold and Silver, 1660 671

4. An Attack on the Navigation Act, _c._ 1663 672

5. Free Coinage at the Mint Proclaimed, 1666 674

6. The East India Company and the Interlopers, 1684 675

7. Foundation of the Bank of England, 1694 676

8. The Need for the Recoinage of 1696 677

9. Speech by Sir Robert Walpole on the Salt Duties, 1732 678

10. Pitt's Sinking Fund Act, 1786 679

11. The Suspension of Cash Payments, 1797 681

12. Pitt's Speech on the Income Tax, 1798 683

13. Foreign Trade in the early Nineteenth Century, 1812 689

14. Debate on the Corn Laws, 1815 692

15. The Corn Law of 1815 697

16. Free Trade Petition, 1820 698

17. The Foundation of the Anti-Corn-Law League, 1839 701

18. The Bank Charter Act, 1844 702

19. Debate on the Corn Laws, 1846 705

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