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... less about trading than about fighting - men , though there seems no reason whatever why banking , for example , should not be quite as interesting a pursuit as battling . At any rate , it may be pleaded in favour of the " Stories of ...
... less about trading than about fighting - men , though there seems no reason whatever why banking , for example , should not be quite as interesting a pursuit as battling . At any rate , it may be pleaded in favour of the " Stories of ...
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... less terrible incident in these banking transactions of former times is mentioned in Arnold's " Chronicle . " The old historian quaintly records that in the year 1278 " all the goldsmiths of London , with all those that kept the Change ...
... less terrible incident in these banking transactions of former times is mentioned in Arnold's " Chronicle . " The old historian quaintly records that in the year 1278 " all the goldsmiths of London , with all those that kept the Change ...
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... less than eight public banking establishments in operation , all in a more or less flourishing state . They were : - Bank of Venice , founded . 1157 Geneva 99 " " 1345 Barcelona 99 99 1401 Genoa 99 " " 1407 99 Amsterdam ,, 1607 Hamburg ...
... less than eight public banking establishments in operation , all in a more or less flourishing state . They were : - Bank of Venice , founded . 1157 Geneva 99 " " 1345 Barcelona 99 99 1401 Genoa 99 " " 1407 99 Amsterdam ,, 1607 Hamburg ...
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... less than ten days , notwith- standing a momentary financial pressure . But the promises held out were also brilliant enough . In return for the loan of £ 1,200,000 , Government guaranteed an annual payment of £ 100,000 to the Bank of ...
... less than ten days , notwith- standing a momentary financial pressure . But the promises held out were also brilliant enough . In return for the loan of £ 1,200,000 , Government guaranteed an annual payment of £ 100,000 to the Bank of ...
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... less Scot was intrigued out of his post and out of the honours he had earned . " Probably Mr. Francis , the historian of the Bank of England , is not far from the truth when he says : " The name of William Paterson was not long upon the ...
... less Scot was intrigued out of his post and out of the honours he had earned . " Probably Mr. Francis , the historian of the Bank of England , is not far from the truth when he says : " The name of William Paterson was not long upon the ...
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Alexander Fordyce Bank of England Banking Company banking establishments banking house bill-brokers bills Black Monday BOOK brothers Cambridge career cent century Christian Church clerk cloth commenced country bankers Coutts Coutts and Co David Barclay deposits directors early English Extra fcap favour firm fortune founder Francis Baring friends funds GEORGE Gideon Goldsmid goldsmiths Government hands Henry Fauntleroy honours house of Rothschild interest James Jew-lane John joint-stock banks King land latter loan Lombard Street London and Westminster Lord lottery Loyd M.A. Crown 8vo M.A. Fcap M.A. Second Edition ment merchants Messrs Meyer Anselm millions sterling monopoly Nathan Rothschild notes Overend paper Parliament partners Peter Thellusson Poems private banks profitable Royal ruin Sampson Sampson Gideon Scotch Scotland SERMONS PREACHED shareholders shrewd Smith South Sea Company speculations Third Edition Thomas tion trade transactions TREATISE VAUGHAN vols wealth Westminster Bank whole William Paterson
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