| Description | Contents include: Memorandum in regard to the exchange of Bills discounted at the Bank, 1857; Graph of Bank Rate, 1844-64, and miscellaneous later tables; Results under the last Bank Charter Act, 1844-1866 (pamphlet on rates); Miscellaneous material from the 1950s and 1960s on the procedure for changing Bank Rate; Bank Rate changes and the Budget; Goschen's Law' (up by 1% down by ½%); Correspondence between Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold and Harold Macmillan on conditions in 1857 and parallels with 1957. |