Penny Dreadfuls, 1858 · page 3 of 14
The Bank Charter Act cannot be maintained... — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# What This Page Is This is a **title page** of a Victorian-era political pamphlet, not a penny dreadful as the framing suggests. ## Content The page announces a suggestion addressed to Sir G. Cornewall Lewis (Chancellor of the Exchequer) by Edward Lloyd, arguing that "The Bank Charter Act Cannot Be Maintained Without A Relaxing Clause." It includes two epigraphs—one from an 1848 House of Lords report on the Bank Charter, another from *The Times* (November 15th, 1857)—supporting Parliament's intervention in banking practice. Published in London by Effingham Wilson in 1858 (M.DCCC.LVIII), priced at one shilling, this appears to be serious financial/political advocacy rather than sensation fiction.
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