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    The Great Stop of the Exchequer or Stop of the Exchequer was a repudiation of state debt that occurred in England in 1672 under the reign of Charles II...
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    1672 (category Leap years in the Gregorian calendar)
    unable to pay the nation's debts, King Charles II decrees the Stop of the Exchequer, the suspension of payments for one year "upon any warrant, securities or...
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  • Downton Abbey (category Mass media portrayals of the upper class)
    including announcing to everyone at the wedding that she and her husband are divorcing, intending to cause a scandal to stop Rose's marriage to Atticus; they...
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    Cabal ministry (redirect from The CABAL)
    the Great Stop of the Exchequer in 1672 and the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Charles was obliged to re-convene parliament in 1673 and the parliamentarians...
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    But the founding of the Bank of England in 1694 revolutionised public finance and put an end to defaults such as the Great Stop of the Exchequer of 1672...
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    Commonwealth of England and Charles II, serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1661 to 1672 and Lord Chancellor from 1672 to 1673. During the Exclusion...
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  • OCLC 5172392. Horsefield, J. Keith (November 1982). "The Stop of the Exchequer Revisited". The Economic History Review. 35 (4): 511–528. doi:10.1111/j...
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    Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet (category Sheriffs of the City of London)
    Great Stop of the Exchequer 1672, and he was reduced to the necessity of compounding with his creditors. He obtained from the state an annuity of £25,000...
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    arms; the "stop of the exchequer", involving a repudiation of the state debt in 1672; and the Royal Declaration of Indulgence the same year, "that we might...
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    in 1742, 1764, and 1781. The founding of the Bank of England put an end to defaults such as the Great Stop of the Exchequer of 1672, when Charles II had...
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    William Russell, Lord Russell (category Members of the Privy Council of England)
    inveighed against the Great Stop of the Exchequer, the attack on the Smyrna fleet, the corruption by French money of Charles's courtiers, and the ill-intended...
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  • given the recent Stop of the Exchequer. To better collect the customs revenue the act established that these were now to be levied and collected by the Commissioners...
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    will be found impossible at the last", an accurate prophecy of the crisis of 1672 which led to the Stop of the Exchequer. He married thrice and had three...
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    support the Stop of the Exchequer and Royal Declaration of Indulgence in early 1672. Subsequently, his political attitude underwent a change, the exact...
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  • Moshe Milevsky (category Academic staff of York University)
    Lessons from the Stop of the Exchequer in 1672. Milevsky, Moshe A. (2015). King William's Tontine: Why the Retirement Annuity of the Future should Resurrect...
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    whether the statue was deliberate revenge for the losses Vyner had suffered with the Stop of the Exchequer, When each one that passes finds fault with the horse...
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    John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (category Members of the Privy Council of England)
    to the Great Stop of the Exchequer of 1672 whereby the Crown had simply refused to pay its debts. The Court of Exchequer Chamber, after litigation of almost...
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    had unwisely engineered the "Great Stop of the Exchequer" in January 1672, redirecting the revenues designated for the paying of government debt towards...
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    of the World - Object : 1660s banking ledger". BBC. Moshe Arye Milevsky, The Day the King Defaulted: Financial Lessons from the Stop of the Exchequer...
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  • The Stop the War Coalition (StWC), informally known simply as Stop the War, is a British group that campaigns against the United Kingdom's involvement...
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  • this period, too, the beginning of the public debt may be found in the Stop of the Exchequer of 1672, and its indefinite deferral of what had originally...
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    "Stop the boats" is a political slogan and pledge used by Tony Abbott in his campaign for the 2013 Australian federal election, and later by former British...
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    HM Treasury (redirect from UK Exchequer)
    and economic growth. It is led by the chancellor of the exchequer, currently Rachel Reeves since 5 July 2024. The Treasury's main offices are located...
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  • 1670s (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Elector of Brandenburg. January 2 – After the government of England is unable to pay the nation's debts, King Charles II decrees the Stop of the Exchequer, the...
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    for India, and later Chancellor of the Exchequer. As Chancellor, he attracted both admiration and criticism across the political spectrum. Some critics...
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    under Boris Johnson, latterly as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022. Sunak has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond and Northallerton...
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    served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1990 until 1993. He was created a life peer in 1998. Lamont was a supporter of the Eurosceptic organisation Leave...
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  • Live Aid (category History of the London Borough of Brent)
    the band from earlier in the week. On its release, the then British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, decided the VAT collected on sales of the...
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    routinely voted against the Labour whip, including New Labour governments. A vocal opponent of the Iraq War, he chaired the Stop the War Coalition from 2011...
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    Iain Macleod (category Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom)
    endorsed the eventual winner Edward Heath. When the Conservatives returned to power in June 1970, he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in Heath's...
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