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Excerpt from First Nine Years of the Bank of England: An Enquiry Into a Weekly Record of the Price of Bank Stock From August 17, 1694, to September 17, 1703
Among the materials which I have collected for the fifth and sixth volumes of my History of Agriculture and Prices, is a weekly register of the price of Bank of England stock, from August 17, 1694, to September 17, 1703. The entries or quotations are taken from a statistical paper published by John Houghton, an apothecary who first lived near the Royal Exchange, and next in Gracechurch Street. Houghton's paper contains a short article on some matter of public interest in art or science or trade, a price list of corn and some other commodities, from many English market towns, and a number of advertisements The sheet is continued till the date given above, when the proprietor of the paper informs his subscribers that his business has so increased that it is no longer in his power to afford the time necessary in order to enable him to digest the materials for his weekly publication. Houghton was the friend of many eminent persons in his day, notably of Halley the astronomer and physicist.
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