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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. THE DELINQUENCIES OF MESSES. STBAHAK, PAUI., AND BATES. The Surprise crcated by the Failure—The Blow to Confidence in the Private Banking Interest—The Antecedents of the House—The Peiition and Rolations of the Partners—Social Standing of Mr. Strahan, and the Religious Habits of Sir John Dcan Paul—Distressing Diselosures respecting the Appropriation of Securities—The Bankruptey of the Firm, and subsequent Criminal Proceedings against the whole of the Partners. Amongst the causes ce'lebre which the annals of commercial crime in our own time supply, none has crcated a more wide- eprcad interest than the case of Strahan, Paul, and Bates, the ex-bankers. Not so extensively ruinous, perhaps, in its results The name of this firm was originally Snow and Walton. It was one of the oldest banking houses in London, second only to Child and Co., who date from 1640. At the period of the Commonwcalth, Snow and Co. carried on the business of pawnbrokers, under tho sign of the " Golden Anchor." The firm about the ycar 1679 suspended its payments, in common with most of the London bankers, owing to the circumstance of the seizure of their money by that most profligate and uuprincipled monarch, Charles H. On a recent examination of the books of Strahan and Co., one was discovered of the date of 1672, which elcarly shows that the mode of keeping aceounts in those days was in decimals. It is curious to observe the nature and quality of the artieles pledged by our ancestors with this house. They were of a miscellaneous and somewhat comical character. One of the entries in the book runs thus:—" March 10, 1672.—To fifteen pounds lent to Lady , on the deposit of a golden pot de chcunbre" The blanh might be filled up with an existing Scoteh title. About twelve ycars agu, J; ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781459073111
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 186 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459073118
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2012
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 314
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 563 gr


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