Advertisement. I have been desired by some gentlemen, who are well-wishers to the intended Land-Bank to publish my answer to the following queries, propounded by several who have read my proposals. Briscoe, John. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B08563 of text R173057 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B4741B). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B08563 Wing B4741B ESTC R173057 69648538 ocm 69648538 184862 2240864248

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B08563) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184862) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2877:8) Advertisement. I have been desired by some gentlemen, who are well-wishers to the intended Land-Bank to publish my answer to the following queries, propounded by several who have read my proposals. Briscoe, John. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1695] Caption title. Signed by John Briscoe. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library. eng Land Bank (London, England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Land banks -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Advertisement. I have been desired by some gentlemen, who are well-wishers to the intended Land-bank, to publish my answers to the following queries, Briscoe, John, 1695 1 814 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2013-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-04 Sampled and proofread 2013-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
ADVERTISEMENT .

I Have been desired by some Gentlemen , who are Well-wishers to the intended LAND-BANK , to publish my Answers to the following Queries , propounded by several who have read my PROPOSALS , Viz.

Where will there be Money found to Circulate the proposed Bills of Credit ?

If I take up Bills to the value of 1000 l or more , of the Directors , upon the Security of my Estate , and these Bills be delivered out in Payment from one to another , How shall I get these Bills again if I have a mind to clear my Estate ?

When I have settled my Estate upon the Trustees , How must I get it out of their Hands , if I would sell it , or settle it for a Jointure ? &c.

If I pay at any time part of my Principal to the Directors , Whether I must notwithstanding continue the payment of the whole Interest , or be from that time discharged from payment of Interest for such part of the Principal I shall so pay the Directors ?

The procuring Money to answer these Bills is part of the Method which I have to lay before those Directors who shall be chosen by the Subscribers , which I think is not reasonable for me to discover till I am in a Capacity to put it in Execution , lest I give others an Opportunity to raise a Superstructure on my Foundation , which some have already attempted to do .

No Man's Estate is proposed to stand engaged for any particular Bill or Bills of Credit , but for such value only in Bills or Money as he shall take up or receive upon the Security of his Estate ; and upon his payment of so much Money , or delivering up Bills of Credit to the like value , his Estate will be cleared .

Any Man may as well sell or otherwise dispose of his Estate that is so settled , as he may any mortgaged Estate , this being in this respect no other than a Mortgage , only it is suted more for the advantage of the Mortgager than are the usual Mortgages : And any Man who settles his Estate in Trust may have his Deed up again whensoever he pleases , upon payment of Principal and Interest .

You are to pay Interest for so much Principal as you from time to time shall owe to the BANK , and for no more .

The Substance of my PROPOSAL is this ,

That the Freeholders are only desired to unite themselves into a Body , by subscribing their Estates to be a Fund for a National LAND-BANK .

And no Man who shall subscribe obliges himself , nor his Estate by his Subscription , the same being rather a Memorandum of the Names and Estates of such who are willing to encourage it .

And I propose , that when there shall be a Subscription of 100000 l. per Annum , the major part of the Subscribers met together are to choose Trustees on whom to settle their Estates , and Directors to manage the intended BANK .

To these Directors I shall propose my Methods of raising Money , and till then the Subscribers or their Estates are under no Obligation , nor themselves at a Penny Charge .

As my Methods shall be approved or disapproved , the Subscribers may settle or forbear to settle their Estates .

If they settle their Estates , their Estates are to be chargeable for no more than what they themselves shall actually receive : and the Subscribers , if they please , shall be furnish'd with three fourth parts of the Value of their Estates at 3 l. 0 s. 10 d. per Cent. per Annum .

And if they shall not settle their Estates , as they will not have been at the least Charge , so they will be at no Trouble but only writing their Names , and meeting once to choose Trustees , Directors , &c.

The Subscription Books lie open at the Chambers of Thomas Gooding Serjeant at Law , in Field-Court in Grayes-Inn At Philip Neave Esq his Chambers , the second Stair-case of the Paper-Buildings in the Inner Temple . At Lawrence Braddon Esq his Chambers , Number 4. the second Stair-Case in the new Square at Lincolns-Inn . At the House of Robert West Esq the Corner of Buckingham-Court near Scotland-Yard . At Mr. John Smith's in Exchange-Alley : And at Mr. Humfry Hack shaw's in Lothbury near the Royal Exchange in London .

John Briscoe .