Chronicles and characters of the stock exchange

by of the Bank of England John Francis

FOOTNOTES:

[13] The above tract appeared in 1719.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX
TO
CHRONICLES AND CHARACTERS
OF THE
STOCK EXCHANGE.

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• Alison, Remarks on the National Debt, [83]
• Annuities, Policy of, [85]
• Asgill, Mr., on reducing the National Debt, [87]
• Baily, Francis, Defence of the Brokers, [72], [81]
• Bank of England,—First Charter, 27th July, 1694, [9]
• ”” First payment of Government dividends, [23]
• ”” Directors of, from 1694 to 1847, [156]
• ”” Dividends of, from 1694 to 1849, [161]
• Barbier, Mr., on the National Debt, [87]
• Barclay and Co., Bankers, Operations of, [104]
• Baring and Goldsmid, Anecdotes of, [61], [75]
• Barings, Sketch of the House of, [75]
• Barnard, Sir John, Opposition to the Stock Exchange, [26]
• ”” Act against Stock Gambling, [27]
• Blackboard, Notices of the, [55], [120]
• Blunt, Sir John, Originator of the South-sea Bubble, [23]
• Bolland, James, Execution of, for forgery, [119]
• Bolingbroke, Remarks on the National Debt of England, [82], [84]
• Bonaparte, Policies on the life of, [79]
• Bowring, and the Greek Loan, [106]
• Bridgewater Canal, [90]
• Brokers, Acts against, [71]
• ’Change Alley, Origin of, [10]
• Charitable Corporation Frauds in London, [19]
• Chatham, Lord, Opinions of ’Change Alley, [57]
• Clayton, Sir Robert, notice of, [8]
• Cochrane, Lord, Fraud of, [80]
• Consols, Highest and Lowest Prices of, for 120 years, [153]
• Daniels, Joseph Elkin, Fraud of, [69]
• Douglas, Heron, & Co., of London, Failure of, [39]
• Dunbar, Speculations of, [118]
• East India Company, Stock of, [9], [18]
• ”” Restriction of its Dividends, [37]
• Elizabeth, (Queen,) Numerous Monopolies granted by, [8]
• Equitable Loan Company, Charter of, [97]
• Exchequer Bills, First Fraud in, [17]
• Exchange Alley, Anatomy of, [135]
• Fordyce, Alexander, Fraud of, [40]
• Foreign Loans contracted, [17]
• Fox, Charles James, Anecdote of, [58]
• Frauds and Forgeries, [32], [40], [69], [77], [80], [100], [119]
• Furness, Sir Henry, Anecdote of, [11]
• French Revolution, Effects of the, [64]
• Germany, Attempted Loan for, [26]
• Gideon, Sampson, the Jew Broker, [33], [118]
• Goldsmid, Abraham and Benjamin, [59]
• ” Suicide of, [60]
• Gordon, Lord George, Anecdote of, [58]
• Gray, Thomas, Plan for Roads, [92], [94]
• Greece, Loan to, [104]
• Guatemala, Loan to, by English Capitalists, [103]
• Guise, Count de, Notice of, [119]
• Guy, Thomas, Anecdote of, [12], [25]
• Hebrew Brokers, Number limited to Twelve, [42]
• Hume, David, Remarks on the National Debt, [84]
• Hume, Joseph, and the Greek Loan, [105]
• Johnstone, Cochrane, Fraud of, [80]
• Joint Stock Companies, Speculations in, [73]
• Life Insurance, Notices of, [125], [127]
• ”” Indisputable Company, [127]
• ”” Policies on Diseased Lives, [128]
• ”” Fraudulent Companies, [130]
• Liverpool and Manchester Railroad, [93]
• Loans to Continental Powers, [104], [115]
• ”New, Frauds, &c., [44], [154]
• ”Since 1793, and Rates of Interest, [154]
• Lopez, Manassez, Punishment of, [29]
• Lotteries, Invention of, [49]
• ”Employed by the State, for Revenue Purposes, [47]
• ”Evils of, and Frauds in, [49]
• ”Abolition of, [53]
• ”Effects of, [50]
• Loyalty Loan, Subscriptions to, [68]
• Marlborough’s (Duke of) Victories, Effects of, [21]
• MacGregor, Gregor, Notice of, [100]
• Mining Companies, Speculations in, [98]
• Moneyed Interest, Origin, Extravagance, and Folly of the, [7]
• National Debt (The), Remarks on, [1], [6], [23]
• ”” Proposal to reduce the Interest on, [28]
• ”” Increase of, 1740-1766, [32], [35]
• ”” Curious Proposition to pay off, [66], [86]
• ”” Review of, [82]
• ”” Smith, Paine, Hervey, Graham, on, [84]
• Newcastle, Duke of, Notice of, [118]
• Petty, Sir Henry, Proposal for a Sinking Fund, [72]
• Pitt, William, Policy of, [64], [65]
• Plomer, Sir Thomas, Fraud on, [77]
• Portugal, Loan to, by English Capitalists, [115]
• Poyais Fraud, Disastrous Effects of the, [100]
• Ricardo, David, Notice of, [77]
• Rice, John, Execution of, for Forgery, [32]
• Rothschild, Notices of, [109], [111]
• ”Death of, [114]
• Royal Exchange, (The) Notice of, [8]
• Secret Service Money, [37]
• Sedley, Sir Charles, Speech of, [13]
• Sinking Fund, the Origin of the, [34], [55]
• Spanish Stock, Fall in, [116]
• Speculations of 1825, [108]
• South American Loans, [99], [103]
• South-sea Bubble, Notices of the, [23], [25]
• Sprot, Mark, Death of, [74]
• Stephenson, on Railroads, [94]
• Stock Exchange, Increased Importance of, [22], [76]
• ”” Opposed by Sir John Barnard, [26]
• ”” Origin of the Blackboard, [55]
• ”” Removal of, [67], [108]
• ”” Increase of Business, 1810-15, [76]
• ”” Morals and Manners of the, [121]
• ”” Rules of the Board for its Members, [124]
• Time Bargains, Origin of, [27]
• Tontines, History of, [6]
• Tulip Mania in Holland, Sketch of, [4]
• Vansittart, Mr., Modification of the Sinking Fund, [78]
• Walpole, Sir R., Opposition to the German Loan, [26]
• ”” ”to a Reduction of Interest on National Debt, [28]
• ”” Adoption of the Sinking Fund, [34]
• ”” Remarks on the National Debt, [84]
• Walsh, Benjamin, Trial of, for Fraud, [77]
• Wilkes, John, Anecdotes of, [42]
• William III., Modes of raising Money for War Purposes, [7]
• ”Enormous Briberies of, [12]
• ”Increased Taxation under, [13]
• ”Defence of his Policy, [14]