Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

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Sir William Scawen
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, director of Bank of England 1699-1701, and from
1723-25; he was Sheriff and later Lord Mayor of London, founded the
New East India Co. in 1693; his parsimony was ridiculed by Alexander
Pope in his quatrains
Sir Charles Montague, first Earl of Halifax, and Chancellor of the
Exchequer -- the present Earl is a director of Hambros Bank
Marquess Normandy, John Sheffield, also held the title of Duke of
Buckingham -- he is buried in Westminster Abbey
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, comptroller of the royal household
Charles Chaplin
and the philosopher, John Locke.
In his "The Bank of England, A History", Sir John
Clapham notes that by 1721, a number of Spanish and
Portuguese Jews had been buying stock in the Bank of
England -- Medina, two Da Costas, Fonseca, Henriquez,
Mendez, Nunes, Roderiquez, Salvador Teixera de
Mattes, Jacob and Theodore Jacobs, Moses and Jacob
Abrabanel, Francis Pereira. Clapham notes that since
1751 there has been very little trading in Bank of
England stock; it has been very closely held for more
than two centuries.
The Bank of England has played a prominent role in
American history -- without it, the United States would
not exist. The American colonists considered themselves
loyal Englishmen to a man, but when they began to
enjoy unequalled prosperity by printing and circulating
their own Colonial scrip, the stockholders of the Bank of
England went to George III and informed him that their
monopoly of interest-bearing notes in the colonies was at
stake. He banned the scrip, with the result that there was
an immediate depression in the commercial life of the