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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XX
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Money must be had, and could in no other way be had so easily.

What took place when the House had resolved itself into a committee cannot be discovered; but, while the Speaker was in the chair, no division took place.

The bill, however, was not safe when it had reached the Upper House.

Some Lords suspected that the plan of a national bank had been devised for the purpose of exalting the moneyed interest at the expense of the landed interest.

Others thought that this plan, whether good or bad, ought not to have been submitted to them in such a form.


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