THE ROYAL EXCHANGE
Reading edition
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE
A NOTE ON THE OCCASION OF THE BICENTENARY OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
BY
A. E. W. MASON
ROYAL EXCHANGE LONDON
1920
CONTENTS.
PART I.—THE HOUSE.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Sir Thomas Gresham and the First Royal Exchange 11
CHAPTER II.
The Great Fire and the Second Royal Exchange 26
CHAPTER III.
The Third Royal Exchange 43
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PART II.—THE BUSINESS.
CHAPTER IV.
The South Sea Bubble and the Birth of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation 51
CHAPTER V.
On Assurance 67
CHAPTER VI.
Some Odds and Ends 85
CHAPTER VII.
The Corporation 97
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Royal Exchange Frontispiece.
FACING PAGE
The First Royal Exchange 20
The Second Royal Exchange 34
Interior of the Second Royal Exchange 41
The Destruction of the Second Royal Exchange by Fire, 1838 43
South Sea Bubble Broadsheet, 1720 52
The Second Royal Exchange—Proof of First Heading on Fire Policies, 1721 99
PART I.
THE HOUSE.