The Salient Features of English Banking History in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

“ After so many Difficulties, and so much Opposition from Malice and Ignorance, we see the Bank of England not only brought to some degree of Perfection but crowned with so glorious Success, and under such Advantageous Circumstances, as are not only surprising at home, but sufficient to amaze all Europe.”—Observations upon the Bank of England (1695), p. 1.