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The anatomy of Exchange-Alley: or, a system of stock-jobbing. Proving that scandalous trade, as it is now carry'd on, to be knavish in its private practice, and treason in its publick: Being a clear Detection I. Of the Private Cheats used to Deceive one another. II. Of their Arts to draw Innocent Families into their Snares, understood by their New Term of Art (viz.) (being let into the Secret.) III. Of their Raising and Spreading False News to Ground the Rise or Fall of Stocks upon. IV. Of their Joyning-With Traytors in Raising and Propagating Treasonable Rumours to Terrify and Discourage the People with Apprehensions of the Enemies to the Government. V. Of their Improving those Rumours, to make a Run upon the Bank, and Ruin publick Credit. VI. Of the dangerous Consequences of their Practises to the Government, and the Necessity there is to Regulate or Suppress them: To which is added, Some Characters of the most Eminent Persons concern'd now, and for some Years past, in Carrying on this Pernicious Trade. By a jobber.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1719]- Books
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A reply to a modest paper, call'd, Reasons for making void fraudulent and usurious contracts, proved to be, &c.
Date: 1721]- Books
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The anatomy of Exchange-Alley: or, a system of stock-jobbing. Proving that scandalous trade, as it is now carry'd on, to be knavish in its private practice, and treason in its publick: Being a clear Detection I. Of the Private Cheats used to Deceive one another. II. Of their Arts to draw Innocent Families into their Snares, understood by their New Term of Art (viz.) (being let into the Secret.) III. Of their Raising and Spreading False News to Ground the Rise or Fall of Stocks upon. IV. Of their Joyning with Traytors in Raising and Propagating Treasonable Rumours to Terrify and Discourage the People with Apprehensions of the Enemies to the Government. V. Of their Improving those Rumours, to make a Run upon the Bank, and Ruin publick Credit. VI. Of the dangerous Consequences of their Practices to the Government, and the Necessity there is to Regulate or Suppress them: To which is added, Some Characters of the most Eminent Persons concern'd now, and for some Years past, in Carrying on this Pernicious Trade. By a jobber.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1719]- Books
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The dealers in stock's assistant: or, a calculation of the value of any parcel of stock from 10000 l. to 1 l. at the Rate of 1/16 of a Pound per Cent. to 200 l. per Cent: For the Ease of the Proprietors of the several transferrable Stocks in buying, selling and casting up Dividends. By G. Clerk, of the South Sea House.
Clerke, George.Date: [1725?]- Books
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Multum in parvo; or, Bubbles in a nut-shells.
Date: 1720- Books
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A letter to the Honourable Spencer Compton, Esq; Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons.
Lintcarius Londinensis.Date: 1720- Books
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The dealers in stock's assistant: or, a calculation of the value of any parcel of stocks from 10000 l. to 1 l. at the Rate of 1/16 of a Pound per Cent to 200 l: per Cent. For the Ease of the Proprietors for several Transferrable Stocks, as South Sea, both Capital and Annuity, East India, Bank of England, Million Bank, York Buildings, Royal Exchange and London Assurance, &c. by which also may be found Interest at any Rate, Insurance, Commission and Brokerage. By G. Clerk, of the South Sea House. N. B. That the Buyer may find his Account in a Book of this Consequence, the Author has taken special Care to correct all the Errors of the Press; and to prevent Imposition, has affix'd at the Bottom of the Preface his Name, in his own Hand Writing.
Clerke, George.Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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Reasons for making void and annulling those fraudulent and usurious contracts, into which multitudes of unhappy persons have been drawn to the utter Ruin of themselves and Families, by the late directors of the South-Sea Company, their Agents and Confederates. Humbly submitted to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament.
Date: 1721?]- Books
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A New-Year's-gift for the directors. With some account of their plot against the two assurances; also a few heads of a new scheme, in a letter to Sir B-n J-n.
Date: 1721- Books
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A New-Year's-gift for the directors. With some account of their plot against the two assurances; also a few heads of a new scheme, in a letter to Sir B-n J-n.
Date: 1721