Bank of England is in Crown.
John Evelyn's Diary. 1st July 1694. The first great bank for a fund of money being now established by Act of Parliament, was filled and completed to the sum of £120,000, and put under the government of the most able and wealthy citizens of London. All who adventured any sum had four per cent., so long as it lay in the bank, and had power either to take it out at pleasure, or transfer it. Glorious steady weather; corn and all fruits in extraordinary plenty generally.
John Evelyn's Diary. 3rd August 1696. The Bank lending the £200,000 to pay the array in Flanders, that had done nothing against the enemy, had so exhausted the treasure of the nation, that one could not have borrowed money under 14 or 15 per cent on bills, or on Exchequer Tallies under 30 per cent. Reasonable good harvest weather. I went to Lambeth [Map] and dined with the Archbishop [aged 59], who had been at Court on the complaint against Dr. Thomas Watson [aged 59], Bishop of St. David's, who was suspended for simony. The Archbishop told me how unsatisfied he was with the Canon law, and how exceedingly unreasonable all their pleadings appeared to him.
In 1753 Samuel Fludyer [aged 49] was appointed a director of the Bank of England.
From 1729 to 1731 Edward Bellamy was Deputy Director of the Bank of England.
In 1697 Francis Eyles 1st Baronet was appointed Director of the Bank of England.
In 1706 John Cope 6th Baronet [aged 32] was elected Director of the Bank of England in which position he remained, with statutory intervals, until 1721.
In 1715 John Eyles 2nd Baronet [aged 32] was appointed Director of the Bank of England which positin he held until 1717.
In 1717 Joseph Eyles [aged 27] was appointed Director of the Bank of England which position he held until 1721.
In 1719 Willam Humphreys 1st Baronet was appointed Director of the Bank of England which office he held at various times until 1730.
From 1723 to 1726 Edward Bellamy was Director of the Bank of England.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1730 Joseph Eyles [aged 40] was appointed Director of the Bank of England which position he held until 1733.
From 1731 to 1733 Edward Bellamy was Director of the Bank of England.
In 1707 Francis Eyles 1st Baronet was appointed Governor of the Bank of England which position he held until 1709.