England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
The King closes the Exchequer. National Bankruptcy.
Reresby : _Memoirs. Dec 11, . | |
And now the king, having borrowed most of the ready money of the nation of the goldsmiths (at that time called bankers), locked up the Exchequer, to the bankruptcy of the most considerable of them, and the ruin of an infinite people, whose money they had borrowed at interest; and with this calamity we conclude this year. | |