106 Pages
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by
Routledge
106 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In seventeenth-century England goldsmiths became what we would now recognise as bankers. Goldsmiths’ shops sold not only gold and silver plate but also instruments of credit, such as bonds and bills of exchange, and offered ‘safe’ places to lodge capital at interest. As well as offering financial services to private individuals, goldsmith bankers also became trusted financial agents to the Crown.... Read more
Acknowledgements
1 The rise of goldsmith banking
2 The practices of goldsmith bankers
3 Early goldsmith bankers
4 Goldsmith banking and the 1672 Stop on the Exchequer
5 Later goldsmith bankers
6 The legacy of goldsmith banking
Index
Biography
Mabel Winter received her PhD from the University of Sheffield and has since held positions at the University of Kent and the University of Sheffield. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate on the AHRC-funded project ‘The Politics of the English Grain Trade, 1315-1815’ at Oxford University. Mabel is the author of Banking, Projecting and Politicking in Early Modern England.
