The History of Banking I, 1650-1850

Forrest Capie is Professor of Economic History and Head of the Department of Banking and Finance, City University Business School. He is the series editor of Edward Elgar's International Library of Macroeconomic and Financial History, and editor of Major Inflations in History (1991), Protectionism in the World Economy (1993), and co-editor of Unregulated Banking: Chaos or Order (1991).

Volume 1: Money Mystery of the New Fashioned Goldsmiths or Bankers (1676); Discourse in the Late Funds of the Million-Act, Lottery Act, and Bank of England (1694); Villainy of Stock-Jobbers Detected(1701); Money and Trade Considered (1705); Act for Continuing the Several Annuities (1724); Signature for the Bank of Scotland (1727); Observations upon the Present State of our Gold and Silver Coins (1774); Banks and Paper Money (1752); Essay on Paper-Money and Banking (1755); Act to restrain the Negotiation of Promissory Notes and Inland Bills pf Exchange under a limited sum (1775); Treatise on Coins of the Realm (1805); Three Letters on the Price of Gold (1809); Errors with respect to Currency and Banking (1838) Volume 2: Usury Discourse shewing the many Advantages which will accrue to this Kingdom by the abatement of Usury (1668); Usury at Six per Cent examined and found unjustly charged by Sir Nicholas Culpepper (1669); Necessity of Abating Usury Reasserted (1670); Select Committee Report on the Present State of Commercial Credit (1793); Reports from the Committees of Secret in the Outstanding Demands of the Bank of England (1797); Defense of Usury (1816); The Currency: Banking (1839) Volume 3: Financial Revolution Settlement of the Land-Bank (1695); Proposal for a National Bank (c.1695); Proposal for a Bank of Secure Current Credit (1695); Reasons for the Establishment of the National Land-Bank (1695); Scheme or Proposals for a National Land-Bank (c.1695); Proposals Recommending the Establishing of a Land-Credit (1700); Proposal whereby His Majesty may raise and extend His Credit to the Annual Value of the Revenue without Interest or Damage (1673-4); Account of the Banks, Lotteries &c tending to the Destruction of Trade and Commerce (1695); Act to secure Fund for Circulating Exchequer Bills (1706); Essay on Publick Credit (1710), Proposals for Restoring Credit (1721) Volume 4: English Banking The Case of the Bankers and their Creditors stated and examined (1675); Proposals for a Model of a Bank (1678); Corporation-Credit (1678); Proposal for a National Bank (1695); Discourse concerning Banks (1697); Investigation into the Circulation of Paper Money or Bank Notes (1803); Rights of Industry and the Banking System (1832); Thoughts upon the Principles of Banks and Legislative Interference (1837); Principles of Banking, Bills of Exchange, British Funds, and Foreign Exchanges (1845); Letter on the 1856 Bill re Limited Liability in Partnerships (1858) Volume 5: Scottish and Irish Banks; Savings Banks Observations on Paper Money, Banking and Overtrading which explain the Scotch System of Banking (1828); The Scottish Banking System (1844); Observations on Irish Banks and Bankers (1760); Essay on Banking in England and Scotland (1827); The Scotch Banker (1828); Letter in the Relative Merits of the English and Scotch Banking Systems (1838); Remarks on the Scotch System of Banking (1840); Reasons for the Establishment of Provident Institutions called Savings Banks; Sketch of the Progress and Present Extent of Savings Banks in the United Kingdom Volume 6: Government Banking Account of the Intended Banks of England (1695); Observations upon the Bank of England (1695); A Short Account upon the Bank of England (1695); A Vindication of the Bank of England (1707); Vindication and Advancement of our National Constitution and Credit (1710); Defense of the Bank of England (1707); Directors of the Bank of England, Enemies to the Great Interests of the Kingdom (1715); Act stating Proviso as to other Companies Borrowing (1716); Charter of the Corporation of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England (1727); Observations on the Establishment of the Bank of England (1797); Further Observations on the Establishment of the Bank of England (1797) Volume 7: Central Banking The Establishment of Another Public Bank in London (1797); History of the Bank of England (1797); Defense of the Conduct of the Directors of the Banks of England and Ireland (1804); The Effect of the Issues of the Bank of England upon its own Interests, Public Credit and Country Banks (1826); Renewal of the Bank Charter (1832); Report from the Committee of Secrecy on the Bank of England Charter (1832); Examination of the Bank Charter Question (1833); A National Bank: The Remedy for the Evils attendant upon our Present System of Paper Currency (1838); Act to regulate the Issue of Bank Notes (184); Thought on the Separation of the Departments of the Bank of England (1844); Relaxing the Banking Act (1847); The Bank of England Justified in their Present Course (1847) Volume 8: Restriction Act to remove Doubts respecting Promissory Notes for Payment of Sums under five Pounds (1797); Act for conforming the Restriction on Payments of Cash by the Bank (1797); Influence of the Stoppage of Issues in Specie at the Bank of England, on the Prices of Provisions and other Commodities (1801); Observations on the Publication of Walter Boyd, MP (1801); Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802), Report from the Select Committee on the High Price of Gold Bullion (1810); Reports from the Secret Committee on the Expediency of the Bank resuming Cash Payments (1819); Effects of the Bank Restrictions (1804) Volume 9: Joint Stock Banking Encouragement of the Establishment of Banks for Savings in England (1825); Advantages of the Proposed National Bank of England (1833); Practice of Banking in Scotland and England (1833); Settlement of the Charter of the Bank of England (1833); Report from the Select Committee on Joint Stock Banks (1836); Report from the Select Committee on Banks of Issue with the Evidence of JH Lamer (1840); Defense of Joint-Stock Banks (1840); Cause of the Present Money Crisis Explained (1837); Philosophy of Joint Stock Banking (1840) Volume 10: Monetary Conditions Causes and Consequences of the Pressure upon the Money-Market (1837); Reflections on the Pamphlets upon the Causes and Consequences of the Pressure on the Money Market (1837); Reply to the Reflections on the Causes and Consequences of the Pressure on the Money Market (1837); Letter to the President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce (1840); Report of the Secret Committee on the Causes of the recent Commercial Distress (1848); State-tampering with Money and Banks (1858)