Some discontented Tories predicted ruin to the monarchy.

It was remarkable, they said, that Banks and Kings had never existed together.

Banks were republican institutions.

There were flourishing banks at Venice, at Genoa, at Amsterdam and at Hamburg.
But who had ever heard of a Bank of France or a Bank of Spain?
[522] Some discontented Whigs, on the other hand, predicted ruin to our liberties.

Here, they said, is an instrument of tyranny more formidable than the High Commission, than the Star Chamber, than even the fifty thousand soldiers of Oliver.