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BOOK NO. ACCESSION 352.1 C533b- 552968 FORM 8431 27M 8-43 ✓ m c i ft 0 0 s t F y GEORGE WARDE NORMAN Director 1821—1872 THE BANK OF ENGLAND o*4 History BY SIR JOHN CLAPHAM C.B.E., Litt.D., F.B.A. VOLUME II I797“I9I4 With an Epilogue: the bank as it is CAMBRIDGE: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1945 Copyright, 1945, by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY All rights reserved — no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS Chapter I. The Years of Suspended Cash Payments, 1797- 1821 page 1 II. From the Resumption of Cash Payment to the Charter Act of 1833 75 III. Between two Charter Acts, 1833-1844 131 IV. The Decade following the Act of 1844 and the Crisis of 1847 186 V. War, Gold and Crises, 1854-1866 222 VI. The New Environment, 1870-90 271 . VII. From the Baring Crisis to the South African War, 1890 to 1899 340 VIII. The Bank in the Early Twentieth Century 375 Epilogue: the Bank as it is 417 Appendices A. Half-yearly dividend on Bank Stock, 1788- 1943 428 B. Bank Rate, 1797-1914 429 f C. Income from the Discounts, 1797-1915 433 D. Income from Short Loans and Advances, 1847-1914 435 E. Bankers’Balances at the Bank, 1878-1913 436 F. Gladstone and the Bank, 1854 437 Graphs 44° Index 443 /
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