Account of the Dean and Chapter's investment in the South Sea Company

DRc/FAs

1716-1724

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1 volume

Kept by the auditor, Edmund Barrell. Contains a minutely detailed account of how the money was invested and how the capital stock of £2,500 bought in 1715-1716 was sold in 1720 to realize £12,270; how the money was laid out in the purchase of East India bonds, and in the purchase of large estates in Chatham, Cliffe, Frindsbury, Halstow, Tunstall, Densted, Lyminge, Lympne, Aylesford, Bredhurst, Boxley and West Peckham.