Catalogue Entry: MINT00689

Proposal to raise credit using Crown stocks of tin, cloth, wool, copper etc. as security

Author: William Tyndal

Source: MINT 19/3/525, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Tyndal's proposal will, he claims, 'encrease ye Trade of this Nation a Million Sterling yearly' and 'employ many thousands of poor people who are now chargeable to their Parishes for want of work'. Embellished with a small drawing of a house labelled 'Mons Charitatis'.

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