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A Discourse concerning BANKS

Attributed Author : Sir Theodore Janssen (1654?-1748), borne in France, Huguenot, flown to England, Merchant, Financier, Shareholder and Director of the Bank of England (BoE), with statutory intervals, 1694-9, 1700-1, 1707-11, 1718-19; Director, South Sea Co. 1711-18, 1719-21. He married Williamza Henley on 26 January 1698 and had three sons: Abraham, Henry, and Stephen. The frequent attribution of this pamphlet (originating from the BMC catalogue) to the third son of Sir Theodore Janssen, Stephen Theodore Janssen (date of birth unknown), is almost certainly mistaken - bearing mind that Theodore’s third son, Steven Theodore, was somewhat unlikely to be borne and able to write before Theodore Janssen had married in January 1698. As far as is known, Sir Theodore’s third son, Stephen Theodore Janssen (d. 1777), has never been involved operationally in any banking business and certainly did not “ …come also into this Bank [oE]...>” as this author writes on page 8 of this pamphlet. Bibliographic Informamation : This (fairly rare) pamphlet was first printed in 1697- and is scanned here as issued with drop-title, printed by James Knapton (London, at the Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard). T

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