Stories of Banks and BankersMacmillan, 1865 - 200 páginas |
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... Scriveners Breaking , which in about 30 years past , cannot amount to so little as betwixt Two and Three Millions , all which might have been prevented had a Bank been sooner Established . " And The Monied Interest . 23.
... Scriveners Breaking , which in about 30 years past , cannot amount to so little as betwixt Two and Three Millions , all which might have been prevented had a Bank been sooner Established . " And The Monied Interest . 23.
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... millions for the same privileges , being an advance of one million and a half on the propo- sition of the South Sea Company . The latter thereupon bid seven and a half millions , on which rate again the Bank of England advanced , by ...
... millions for the same privileges , being an advance of one million and a half on the propo- sition of the South Sea Company . The latter thereupon bid seven and a half millions , on which rate again the Bank of England advanced , by ...
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... million of the present day . The million gained in the general wreck of the South Sea bubble went to charitable pur- poses through a very singular accident . Old Thomas Guy , grown very grey and very mean and miserly behind his shop ...
... million of the present day . The million gained in the general wreck of the South Sea bubble went to charitable pur- poses through a very singular accident . Old Thomas Guy , grown very grey and very mean and miserly behind his shop ...
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... millions in value , was entrusted to a number of ragged little postboys , who carried the letters in pouches slung across the horses ' back . A curious account of this old Post - office system , in existence till the latter part of the ...
... millions in value , was entrusted to a number of ragged little postboys , who carried the letters in pouches slung across the horses ' back . A curious account of this old Post - office system , in existence till the latter part of the ...
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... million of money . The career of Sir Francis Baring was still more successful . Like their modern successors and rivals , the world - famous bankers of the Red Shield , the Barings came from Germany . The immediate ancestor of the ...
... million of money . The career of Sir Francis Baring was still more successful . Like their modern successors and rivals , the world - famous bankers of the Red Shield , the Barings came from Germany . The immediate ancestor of the ...
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Bank of England Banking Company banking establishments banking house bill-brokers bills Black Monday brothers Cambridge career cent century Christian Church clerk cloth country bankers Coutts Coutts and Co Crown 8vo David Barclay deposits directors early English Extra fcap favour Fcap firm fortune founder Francis Baring friends funds GEORGE Gideon Goldsmid goldsmiths Government Henry Fauntleroy honours house of Rothschild hundred 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 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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