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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
tablished; and in France a medal commemorated the successes of Chap. XXI.} Louis XIV. in the New World. The New England ships, on their return, were scattered by storms: of one, bearing sixty men, wrecked on Anticosti, five of the few who did not perish from the winter, boldest of navigators, landed in Boston in the following May, after a voyage of forty-four days in a skiff. Sir William Phipps reached home in November. The treasury was empty. Considering the present poverty of 1690 Dec. 10. the country, and, through scarcity of money, the want of an adequate measure of commerce, issues of bills of credit were authorized, in notes from five shillings to five pounds, to be in value equal to money, and accepted in all public payments. But, as confidence wavered, the bills of the colony, which continued to be issued, were made, in all payments, a legal tender, and, instead of bearing interest, were received at the treasury at five per cent. advance. Repulsed from Canada, the