Caption Title Act Prevent Infamous (1 results)

[2], 199-206pp. Text in black letter. ESTC N51344. [Bound with:] [ACTS - GEORGE II]. [Caption title:] An Act to make perpetual an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act to prevent the infamous Practice of Stock-jobbing. London. Printed by John Baskett, 1737. [2], 203-204pp. Text in black letter. ESTC N51471. Folio. Handsomely bound in modern red morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt to upper board 'Sir John Barnard's Act 1734'. Housed in custom red cloth slipcase. Clean and crisp. Sir John Barnard (c. 1685-1764). Barnard's tireless representation of the economic welfare of small merchants and manufacturers secured his reputation as a champion of the common man. His concern over the influence of moneyed interest and his position as an adversary to political corruption won him few friends in Walpole's government. In 1733 he introduced a bill to prevent 'the infamous practice of stock-jobbing' (something he had himself been falsely accused of in an election squib in 1722). Had the measure not been emasculated by a series of government-inspired amendments it would have prevented the development of the stock exchange. ESTC records copies of the first mentioned work at just three locations (BL, California, and Senate House); and just three copies of the second (California, Philadelphia, and Senate House).