An essay upon public credit: being an enquiry how the public credit comes to depend upon the change of the ministry, or the dissolutions of Parliaments; and whether it does so or no? With an argument, Proving that the public credit may be upheld and maintained in this Nation, and perhaps brought to a greater Height than it ever yet arrived at; though all the Changes or Dissolutions already made, pretended to, and now discoursed of, should come to pass in the World: By Robert Harley, Esq. afterwards earl of oxford, and lord high treasurer of Great Britain; First printed, 1710. With short historical notes, explaining the difficult Passages.

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  • An essay upon public credit: being an enquiry how the public credit comes to depend upon the change of the ministry, or the dissolutions of Parliaments; and whether it does so or no? With an argument, Proving that the public credit may be upheld and maintained in this Nation, and perhaps brought to a greater Height than it ever yet arrived at; though all the Changes or Dissolutions already made, pretended to, and now discoursed of, should come to pass in the World: By Robert Harley, Esq. afterwards earl of oxford, and lord high treasurer of Great Britain; First printed, 1710. With short historical notes, explaining the difficult Passages.
  • Essay upon publick credit
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Imprint
London: printed for W. Baynes, No. 54, Paternoster-Row; and J. S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-Street, 1797.
Publication year
?
ESTC No.
T4231
Grub Street ID
271104
Description
35,[1]p. ; 8⁰
Note
In fact by Daniel Defoe.

Sometimes erroneously attributed to Robert Harley.

With a half-title.
Uncontrolled note
Cf.Moore 187