Rise of the London Money Market

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Dr. Bisschop's The Rise of the London Money Market, 1640 to 1826, now for the first time translated into English, first appeared, in the original Dutch, at the Hague in I 896. It was at my request that Dr. Bisschop very kindly undertook to have the work translated, and I willingly comply with his suggestion that I should write a few lines by, way of preface. Those who have worked at the history of English banking well know that the special chapter of that history, which Dr. Bisschop has attacked is the most obscure and difficult of all, and has hardly. Been attempted by previous writers. Every his torian has felt bound to give some account of the origin of our English deposit-bank ing, and hence every, history has some thing to say about the Goldsmith bankers.