A History Of Banks Bankers Banking In Northumberland Durham And North Yorkshire With

Author : Maberly Phillips
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ISBN 13 : 9781331900375
Total Pages : 510 pages
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Download or read book A History of Banks, Bankers,& Banking written by Maberly Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Banks, Bankers,& Banking: In Northumberland, Durham, and North Yorkshire, Illustrating the Commercial Development of the North of England, From 1755 to 1894 The attention of the reader is asked to a few words by way of preface. In the year 1860 Northumberland became the county of my adoption, and very soon after my settlement I was impressed with the wide and varied field that it offered for antiquarian research. I grew deeply interested in the past records of the county, and became personally acquainted with many present day contributors to the pages of local history. There is only one step from admiration to imitation, and soon after becoming a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, I began to contribute short papers bearing upon unnoticed local incidents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The investigations necessary for these purposes led me to notice, that while the books on the shelves of our libraries gave many interesting accounts of the various Trade Guilds in which the city is so exceptionally strong; and the MS. volumes of the "Merchants-adventurers" were full of unpublished records of Hostmen and Boothmen - the merchant princes of their day - no mention was made of Banking, the occupation in which my lot had been cast. The early historians treated of pre-banking days, and the modem writers of history, from some unexplained cause, made the barest possible reference to the bankers. Further search revealed that Newcastle had possessed one of the earliest provincial banks, but there was no written account of it. I therefore contemplated gathering all available particulars of the "Old Bank" of Newcastle, intending to offer the result to the Society of Antiquaries. From Mr. Cuthbert Carr, whose ancestor had founded the bank, I received most generous aid. I also consulted Mr. C. J. Spence, whose father, Mr. Robert Spence, had been a collector of manuscripts and original documents relating to a variety of subjects, amongst others, that of banking. He readily showed me the collection, and generously offered the use of it in any way I thought most desirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.