A LIST OF ACTS RELATIVE TO BROKERS.
| 13 Edward I. | Statute 5 | Anno 1284. |
| 1 James I. | ”21 | 1604. |
| 8 and 9 William III. | ”32 | 1697, expired 1707. |
| 6 Anne | ”16 | 1707. |
| 10 ” | ”19 | 1711. |
| 6 George I. | ”18 | 1720. |
| 3 George II. | ”31 | 1730, for Bristol. |
| 7 George II. | ”8 | 1739. |
DIRECTORS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND
FROM 1694 TO 1847.
| Sir John Houblon | 1694 |
| Michael Godfrey | ” |
| Sir Thomas Abney | ” |
| Sir James Bateman | ” |
| Brooke Bridges | ” |
| George Boddington | ” |
| James Denew | ” |
| Sir Henry Furnese | ” |
| Sir William Gore | ” |
| Thomas Goddard | ” |
| Sir Gilbert Heathcote | ” |
| Sir William Hedges | ” |
| Sir James Houblon | ” |
| Sir John Huband | ” |
| Abraham Houblon | ” |
| Sir Theodore Janssen | ” |
| John Knight | ” |
| Samuel Lethieullier | ” |
| John Lordell | ” |
| William Patterson | ” |
| Robert Raworth | ” |
| Sir William Scawen | ” |
| Obadiah Sedgwick | ” |
| John Smith | ” |
| Nathaniel Tench | ” |
| Sir John Ward | ” |
| Henry Cornish | 1695 |
| Edward Clarke | ” |
| Sir John Cope, Sen. | ” |
| Peter Godfrey | ” |
| Anthony Stevens | 1695 |
| Sir William Ashhurst | 1697 |
| Robert Bristow | ” |
| Samuel Bultell | ” |
| John Page | ” |
| Sir Francis Eyles | ” |
| John Shipman | ” |
| Sir Nathaniel Gould | ” |
| Samuel Lock | ” |
| Sir Peter Delme | 1698 |
| William Dawsonne | ” |
| Francis Stratford | ” |
| Peter Gott | ” |
| Sir Richard Levett | ” |
| John Devinck | 1699 |
| John Rudge | ” |
| Richard Perry | ” |
| John Reynardson | 1700 |
| William Desbouverie | ” |
| Josiah Diston | 1701 |
| John Gould | ” |
| John Hanger | ” |
| Humphrey South | ” |
| Sir Robert Clayton | 1702 |
| Sir Gerard Conyers | ” |
| Abraham Hill | ” |
| Samuel Heathcote | ” |
| Charles Chambrelan | 1703 |
| Sir William Hodges | ” |
| Sir Charles Peers | 1705 |
| Sir Thomas Scawen | 1705 |
| Sir John Cope, Jun. | 1706 |
| James Dolliffe | 1708 |
| John Emilie | ” |
| William Gore | 1709 |
| Sir Justus Beck | 1710 |
| William Henry Comellissen | ” |
| John Dolben | ” |
| Jeremiah Powell | ” |
| Sir Denis Dutry | 1711 |
| Heneage Fetherstone | ” |
| Sir Philip Jackson | ” |
| John Ward, Jun. | ” |
| Sir George Thorold | ” |
| Mr. Robert Atwood | 1712 |
| Richard Cary | ” |
| Sir Joseph Hodges | ” |
| Sir Randolph Knipe | ” |
| Christopher Lethieullier | ” |
| Matthew Raper | ” |
| John Edmonds | 1713 |
| Sir Richard Houblon | ” |
| Richard Chiswell | 1714 |
| Sir William Jolliff | ” |
| Henry Lyell | ” |
| William Thompson | ” |
| Sir John Eyles | 1715 |
| Mr. Barrington Eaton | 1716 |
| John Francis Fauquier | ” |
| Humphrey Morice | ” |
| Moses Raper | ” |
| Sir Joseph Eyles | 1717 |
| Sir William Humphreys | 1719 |
| Richard Du Cane | 1720 |
| Samuel Holden | ” |
| Bryan Benson | 1721 |
| Thomas Cooke | ” |
| Delillers Carbonnel | 1722 |
| Nathaniel Gould | ” |
| Henry Herring | ” |
| Hon. Horatio Townshend | ” |
| Sir Edward Bellamy | 1723 |
| Matthew Howard | ” |
| John Olmuns | ” |
| Sir Francis Forbes | 1724 |
| William Fawkener | ” |
| Sir John Heathcote | 1725 |
| John Nicoll | 1726 |
| Sir Francis Porten | ” |
| Stamp Brooksbank | 1728 |
| James Gaultier | ” |
| William Hunt | ” |
| William Snelling | ” |
| Clement Boehm | 1729 |
| Joseph Paice, Jun. | 1730 |
| Matthew Raper | ” |
| James Spilman | ” |
| Robert Alsop | 1731 |
| John Bance | ” |
| Henry Neale | 1732 |
| Robert Thornton | ” |
| Charles Savage | 1733 |
| Benjamin Lethieullier | 1734 |
| Benjamin Longuet | ” |
| Sir John Thompson | ” |
| Christopher Tower | ” |
| John Eaton Dodsworth | ” |
| Frederick Frankland | 1736 |
| Samuel Trench | ” |
| Alexander Sheafe | 1737 |
| Richard Chiswell, Jun. | 1738 |
| Sir John Lequesne | ” |
| Benjamin Mee | ” |
| Mark Weyland | ” |
| Claude Fonnereau | 1739 |
| Charles Palmer | ” |
| John South | ” |
| Matthew Beachcroft | 1741 |
| Robert Nettleton | ” |
| Thomas Whateley | ” |
| Merrik Burrell | 1742 |
| James Lever | ” |
| Theophilus Salwey | 1742 |
| Robert Marsh | 1743 |
| James Theobald | ” |
| Robert Salusbury | 1744 |
| Peter Thomas | ” |
| Bartholomew Burton | 1746 |
| Godfrey Thornton | 1748 |
| John Weyland | ” |
| Thomas Winterbottom | 1749 |
| Charles Boehm | 1750 |
| Matthew Clairmont | ” |
| Samuel Handley | ” |
| Richard Stratton | ” |
| Harry Thompson | ” |
| Sir Samuel Fludyer | 1753 |
| John Sargent | ” |
| William Cooper | 1754 |
| Philip De la Haize | ” |
| Sir Thomas Chitty | 1755 |
| Peter Du’Cane | ” |
| Edward Payne | 1756 |
| Thomas Plurner | ” |
| Peter Theobald | ” |
| Robert Dingley | 1757 |
| James Sperling | ” |
| Henry Plant | 1759 |
| Samuel Beachcroft | 1760 |
| Gustavus Brander | 1761 |
| Daniel Booth | ” |
| John Cornwall | ” |
| Peter Gaussen | ” |
| James Haughton Langston | ” |
| Edmund Wilcox | ” |
| William Bowden | 1763 |
| William Ewer | ” |
| Richard Neave | ” |
| John Fisher | 1764 |
| Christopher Hake, Jun. | ” |
| Thomas Thomas | 1765 |
| Edward Darell | 1767 |
| William Halhed | ” |
| Lyde Browne | 1768 |
| George Drake | ” |
| George Hayter | ” |
| Benjamin Hopkins | ” |
| George Peters | ” |
| Mark Weyland | ” |
| Roger Boehm | 1769 |
| Matthew Howard | ” |
| Benjamin Branfill | 1770 |
| William Snell | ” |
| Samuel Bosanquet | 1771 |
| Martyn Fonnereau | ” |
| Godfrey Thornton | 1772 |
| Daniel Giles, Jun. | 1774 |
| Christopher Puller | ” |
| Thomas Dea | 1775 |
| Richard Clay | 1776 |
| Thomas Raikes | ” |
| Benjamin Mee, Jun. | 1777 |
| John Sargent, Jun. | 1788 |
| William Cooke | 1780 |
| Samuel Thornton | ” |
| Thomas Scott Jackson | ” |
| Job Matthew | 1781 |
| Joseph Nutt | ” |
| Thomas Boddington | 1782 |
| Benjamin Winthrop | ” |
| Beeston Long, Jun. | 1784 |
| James Maude | ” |
| Isaac Osborne | ” |
| Sir Brook Watson | ” |
| John Harrison | 1785 |
| Bicknell Coney | 1786 |
| John Whitmore, Jun. | ” |
| Peter Isaac Thellusson | 1787 |
| Moses Yeldham | 1788 |
| William Manning, Jun. | 1790 |
| John Pearce | ” |
| John Puget | ” |
| Thomas Lewin | 1791 |
| Peter Cazalet | 1792 |
| William Mellish | 1792 |
| Edward Simeon | ” |
| Alexander Champion, Jun. | 1794 |
| George Dorrien | ” |
| Jeremiah Harman | ” |
| Nathaniel Bogle French | 1796 |
| Charles Pole | ” |
| Thomas Amyand | 1798 |
| Thomas Langley | ” |
| Ebenezer Maitland | ” |
| Peter Free | 1800 |
| Jeremiah Olive | ” |
| Henry Smith | 1802 |
| Stephen Thornton | ” |
| John Bowden | 1803 |
| Cornelius Buller | ” |
| Alexander Baring | 1805 |
| John Josiah Holford | ” |
| John Baker Richards | ” |
| Samuel Drew | 1806 |
| Henry Davidson | 1807 |
| John Stainforth | ” |
| Sir Robert Wigram | ” |
| John Campbell | 1808 |
| William Haldimand | 1809 |
| George Blackman | 1810 |
| William Tierney Robarts | ” |
| John Horsley Palmer | 1811 |
| Andrew Henry Thompson | ” |
| Sir Thomas Neave | 1812 |
| Richard Mee Raikes | ” |
| James Pattison, Jun. | 1813 |
| William Ward | 1817 |
| Samuel Hibbert | 1819 |
| Timothy Abraham Curtis | 1820 |
| John Rae Reid | ” |
| Sir John Henry Pelly | 1821 |
| David Barclay | ” |
| John Cockerell | ” |
| Henry Porcher | ” |
| William Cotton | 1822 |
| John Benjamin Heath | 1823 |
| William R. Robinson | 1825 |
| James Morris | 1827 |
| William Thompson | ” |
| Humphrey St. John Mildmay | 1828 |
| John Oliver Hanson | 1829 |
| Charles Pascoe Grenfell | 1830 |
| Abel Lewes Gower | ” |
| Sheffield Neave | ” |
| Rowland Mitchell | 1833 |
| Christopher Pearse | 1834 |
| Henry Davidson | 1835 |
| Bonamy Dobree | ” |
| Thomson Hankey, Jun. | ” |
| Henry James Prescott | ” |
| Robert Barclay | 1837 |
| John Malcolmson | ” |
| John Gellibrand Hubbard | 1838 |
| Charles Frederick Huth | ” |
| Alfred Latham | ” |
| Thomas Charles Smith | ” |
| Thomas Matthias Weguelin | ” |
| Edward Henry Chapman | 1840 |
| Kirkman Daniel Hodgson | ” |
| William Little | 1842 |
| David Powell | ” |
| Francis Wilson | ” |
| Arthur Edward Campbell | 1843 |
| Thomas Tooke, Jun. | ” |
| Henry Lancelot Holland | 1844 |
| Thomas Newman Hunt | ” |
ANNUAL DIVIDENDS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND,
From 1694 to 1849 inclusive.
| Per cent. | |
| 1694-1697 | 8 |
| 1698 | 7 |
| 1699 | 9½ |
| 1700 | 10¾ |
| 1701 | 9 |
| 1702 | 12 |
| 1703 | 16½ |
| 1704 | 15¾ |
| 1705 | 15½ |
| 1706 | 18¼ |
| 1707 | 7¾ |
| 1708 | 12½ |
| 1709 | 8½ |
| 1710 | 7½ |
| 1711 | 7 |
| 1712 | 8 |
| 1713 | 8 |
| 1714 | 8 |
| 1715 | 7¾ |
| 1716 | 8 |
| 1717 | 8 |
| 1718 | 8 |
| 1719 | 7½ |
| 1720 | 7½ |
| 1721 | 6 |
| 1722 | 6 |
| 1723 | 6 |
| 1724 | 6 |
| 1725 | 6 |
| 1726 | 6 |
| 1727 | 6 |
| 1728 | 5½ |
| 1729 | 5½ |
| 1730 | 5¾ |
| 1731 | 5¾ |