Sir Robert Clayton and the Origins of English Deposit Banking, 1658-1685
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- Author(s) Melton, Frank T
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1986
- Pages 259pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Provides a wide ranging study of the origins of banking in England through the activities of the money scriveners Robert Abbott from 1636 and his successors in 1658, his nephew Robert Clayton and John Morris. Has sections: 'English banking in historical perspective'; 'The master scrivener and his apprentices, 1610-58'; 'The scriveners' bank'; 'The records of early banking'; 'Law, practice and profits of the early banking mortgage'; 'The new land assessment - from the terrier to the estate particular'; 'The management of mortgaged estates'; 'The aftermath of restoration banking'. Provides a schedule of 'Goldsmiths keeping 'running cashes', 1670-1700 [pp236-42]