10l. 3 years 1s. 9td. should probably be is. 9 d. 30%. 1 year is. 3fd.

Is. 9 d. 800l. 7 years 127. 10s. should doubtless be 12/.

Add to Note 2-or perhaps 4s. id.

for th read the.

138 last line but one

145

2

15

1223

206

27

209

for hat read that.

Quotation ends at Contribution.

Feake's Scheme. It will be observed, at page 115, that Wm. Freke was one of the Co-partners in the Bristol Crown. The question of identity put at p. 95, equally applies to this

person.

The quotation from Lawson was given on the authority of Walford (Cyclo. 1, 399), but since this work was completed we have found that the paragraph was taken, with a few verbal alterations, from p. 102 of An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce from the Earliest Accounts to the present time. 1789, 4 vols., 4to. (Brit. Mus., 2020 h.), by Adam Anderson. He devoted some pages (vol. iii., pp. 98-114) to Bubbles and the Bubble Era, as also a further space to the South Sea Company.

for n read in.

after p. 154, add pp. 155-159.

for in these proposals of 1722, read in the foregoing proposals. Table at top of page.

Doubly hazardous at 5s. to be even with 35. hazardous.

for Mr. M. Farlane read Mr. McFarlane. Bristol Union stated to have been founded about 1814. We find that the first Meeting for the formation of the Office, was on 22 Dec., 1817. Its arrangements were completed in, and date of establishment specified as, 1818, and its Deed of Settlement was dated 25 March, 1819.

Manchester Fire Office, 1771.

In the Post Magazine, of 3 June, 1893, p. 395, is an interesting statement with reference to this Office, written by one who evidently has had means of obtaining information which we