no more than L5 ,37 5 ''^2 7 

 17/107, (till the year 

 1722, when they purchaf- 

 ed4 millions of theSouth- 

 fea company) whereby 

 Lioo bank flock, as due 

 from thepublic, was now 

 really no more than L96 

 ^3757- So that all its 

 advanced value muft and 

 did arife from the profits 

 of banking ! 



Royal African flock, 

 old capital L40o,ooo, ad- 

 ditional one Li, 600, 000 



II) Million-bank, 

 Ljoo.ooo 



York-buildings com- 

 pany, Li, 200, 000 - 



Luflring company, 

 10,000 fhares, valued at 

 Li, 200, 000, not worth 

 one farthing, - - - 



Englifli copper compa- 

 ny, ----- - 



Welch copper compa- 

 ny, worth nothing at all, 



Royal fifhery company, 

 worth nothing, 



(N. B.— TheHudfon's- 

 bay com]>any's capital 

 being fo fmall as about 

 Li 1 0,000 was engrofTed 

 by fo few, that it was not 

 known what its price was 

 at that time.) 



III) Note alio, that be- 

 fides the great legal com- 

 panies, whole flocks were 

 ufually tranra(fled in Ex- 

 change-alley, there were, 

 nnd Hill are, fome whofc 



A. D. 1720. 91 



Original money paid in or due. Highcfl; prices fold for in 1720. 



£• 



23 



100 



10 



5i o 

 5 o 



4i o 

 10 o 



C 



per fhare 

 per fhare 



o per cent 

 o per cent 



200 



440 



J'-':) 



d. 



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