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For example, David Nokes quotes (based on Howson) the following advertisement from the Daily Post in 1724 in his edition of Henry Fielding's The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great: The advertisement is extortion. The "notes of hand" (agreements of debt) mean signatures, so Wild already knows the name of the book's owner. Furthermore, Wild tells the owner through the ad that he knows what its owner was doing at the time, since the Fountain Tavern was a brothel. The real purpose of the ad is to threaten the notebook's owner with announcing his visit to a bordello, either to the debtors or the public, and it even names a price for silence (a guinea, or one pound and one shilling).
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In consequence of there being neither gold nor silver coins of any > denomination, nor any legal currency, as a substitute for specie in the > colony, the people have been in some degree forced on the expedient of > issuing and receiving notes of hand to supply the place of real money, and > this petty banking has thrown open a door to frauds and impositions of a > most grievous nature to the country at large…At present the agricultural and > commercial pursuits of the territory are very much impeded and obstructed by > the want of some adequately secured circulating medium.Governor Macquarie to > Viscount Castlereagh, 30 April 1810, HRNSW, Vol. VII, page 348. Under D’Arcy Wentworth, the Colonial Fund had a quasi-bank role, printing and issuing bank notes to people who had claims on the Fund.
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He made full use of his authority as a leverage to build or extend his thief-taking business and stayed as a middleman in it. Hitchen managed to regulate about 2000 thieves and organise for them to steal and fence the stolen merchandise through him, a practice pickpockets would find more profitable or less dangerous than going to a pawnbroker, since most desperate victims of the theft were ready to pay a fee negotiated by the "finder" (Hitchen) for the return of their stolen items. 258x258px With the growth of paper money transfers, the early draught notices, and "notes of hand" (agreements to pay the bearer), pickpockets were causing larger and larger economic losses to traders and merchants. Hitchen learnt how valuable these notices were to their owners and started the trade of returning them for a reward.
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