FN 503 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary, September 1691.

FN 504 Commons’ Journals, Jan. 4. 1693/4.

FN 505 Of the Naturalisation Bill no copy, I believe exists.  The history of that bill will be found in the Journals.  From Van Citters and L’Hermitage we learn less than might have been expected on a subject which must have been interesting to Dutch statesmen.  Knight’s speech will be found among the Somers Papers.  He is described by his brother Jacobite, Roger North, as “a gentleman of as eminent integrity and loyalty as ever the city of Bristol was honoured with.”

FN 506 Commons’ Journals, Dec 5. 1694.

FN 507 Commons’ Journals, Dec. 20. and 22. 1693/4.  The journals did not then contain any notice of the divisions which took place when the House was in committee.  There was only one division on the army estimates of this year, when the mace was on the table.  That division was on the question whether 60,000L. or 147,000L. should be granted for hospitals and contingencies.  The Whigs carried the larger sum by 184 votes to 120.  Wharton was a teller for the majority, Foley for the minority.

FN 508 Commons’ Journals, Nov. 25. 1694.

FN 509 Stat. 5 W. & M. c.  I.

FN 510 Stat. 5 & 6 W.& M. c. 14.

FN 511 Stat. 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 21.; Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.

FN 512 Stat. 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 22.; Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.

FN 513 Stat. 5 W. & M. c. 7.; Evelyn’s Diary, Oct. 5, Nov. 22. 1694; A Poem on Squire Neale’s Projects; Malcolm’s History of London.  Neale’s functions are described in several editions of Chamberlayne’s State of England.  His name frequently appears in the London Gazette, as, for example, on July 28. 1684.

FN 514 See, for example, the Mystery of the Newfashioned Goldsmiths or Brokers, 1676; Is not the Hand of Joab in all this? 1676; and an answer published in the same year.  See also England’s Glory in the great Improvement by Banking and Trade, 1694.

FN 515 See the Life of Dudley North, by his brother Roger.

FN 516 See a pamphlet entitled Corporation Credit; or a Bank of Credit, made Current by Common Consent in London, more Useful and Safe than Money.

FN 517 A proposal by Dr. Hugh Chamberlayne, in Essex Street, for a Bank, of Secure Current Credit to be founded upon Land, in order to the General Good of Landed Men, to the great Increase in the Value of Land, and the no less Benefit of Trade and Commerce, 1695; Proposals for the supplying their Majesties with Money on Easy Terms, exempting the Nobility, Gentry, &c., from Taxes enlarging their Yearly Estates, and enriching all the Subjects of the Kingdom by a National Land Bank; by John Briscoe.  “O fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint Anglicanos.”  Third Edition, 1696.  Briscoe seems to have been as much versed in Latin literature as in political economy.