Journal 52, fo. 51.

Journal House of Commons, xi, 143, 144.

Macaulay, chap. xx.

Burnet, iv, 223.

Journal House of Commons, xi, 162.

Journal House of Commons, xi, 165, 170; Journal House of Lords, xv, 424.

Luttrell, iii, 329, 342; Cf. List of directors printed in Appendix to Francis's "History of the Bank" (ii, 262).

Luttrell, iii, 331-2, 333-4, 336, 338.

The picture drawn by Macaulay ("History of England," chap. xx) of the chancellor of the exchequer going, hat in hand, up and down Cheapside and Cornhill, attended by the lord mayor and aldermen, and borrowing £100 from this hosier and £200 from that ironmonger, is altogether too fanciful.

Journal 52, fos. 91, 113b, 142, 142b.