Henry Rice Vaughan

1622 - 1695

About the Author

Author of an early tract on coinage which appeared in McCulloch’s collection.

In The Library:

• author: A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money (1856)

Quotations:

• Henry Vaughan argues that it is the voluntary and “universal concurrence of mankind”, not the laws, which makes money acceptable as a medium of exchange (1675) (21 January, 2008)