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Law’s travels: du Hautchamp; Gray; Wood.
Bank of Amsterdam: Williams; Galbraith; Angell, The Story of Money.
Swedish banking: Williams.
American banking: Angell.
“The present poverty . . .”: ibid.
Paris in the late seventeenth century: Lister; J. Black, The British Abroad; C. Hibbert, The Grand Tour.
“a perpetual diversion . . .”: Lister.
“It is a great misfortune for a stranger”: Andrew Mitchell quoted by Hibbert, Grand Tour.
“never carried less than two bags filled with gold coins . . .”: du Hautchamp.
Katherine Knowles: Gray; Wood; Hyde; Murphy, John Law; Saint-Simon.
“a man is in general better pleased . . .”: S. Johnson, quoted by Hibbert, Grand Tour.
Law’s problems with authorities, and elopement with Katherine: Gray.
“Women, men and persons of all conditions . . .”: Evelyn, Diary.
“They dismiss the gamesters . . .”: quoted by Hibbert, Grand Tour.
Queen Anne petition: HMC Portland vol. VIII, pp. 320-21.
Money and Trade Considered: reprinted in Harsin (ed.), Les Oeuvres complètes de John Law.
Greg report and account of duel: HMC Portland vol. IV, pp. 195, 208-9.
Miniature of Law: Earl of Derby’s collection, Knowsley; interestingly the miniature is recorded as having been acquired (lot 46) at the famous Horace Walpole Strawberry Hill sale in 1842, when a Rosalba Carriera pastel of Law was also sold (and subsequently lost). Literature: George Scharf, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Knowsley Hall, 1875.
CHAPTER 7: The Root of All Evil
Conditions in France: Cronin, Louis XIV; Perkins, France Under the Regency; Charlotte Elizabeth, Letters.
Louis XIV’s financial problems and difficulty raising loans: Murphy, John Law.
Visits to Paris and letters: Harsin.
Character of Orléans: Pevitt, The Man Who Would Be King; Charlotte Elizabeth; Saint-Simon.
Drummond letter: April 1713, HMC Portland vol. 5, p. 287.
Lotteries in Holland: Hamilton.
Desmarets’s letters: Harsin.
“A Scot named Law . . .”: quoted by Hamilton.
Stair’s visit and petitions, February 1715: Murray, Stair Annals, p. 265; Hardwicke, State Papers.
Halifax letter February 14, 1715: Stair Annals, p. 264.
Stanhope’s fury: ms. Méjanes, 79v-80.
CHAPTER 8: The Bank
“Your Royal Highness . . .”: Harsin.
Public opinion about the bank: Barthélemy, Gazette de la Régence.
“an intruder put by the hand . . .”: Saint-Simon.
Economic problems and debts: Murphy, John Law.
“We found the estate of our Crown . . .”: Pevitt, p. 180.
“The convenience will be such . . .”: Saint-Simon, vol. 4, p. 68.
Duc d’Antin support: quoted by Murphy, p. 143.
“I could still be useful”: ibid., p. 245.
“I have need of nothing having enough . . .”: ibid.
“If Spain had ceded the Indies . . .”: ibid., p. 265.
Visa: Perkins; Murphy, John Law; Hyde; Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions.
Revaluation of currency: Murphy, pp. 152-53; Mayhew, Coinage in France from the Dark Ages to Napoleon.
Galleys: Perkins; Evelyn.
Structure and progress of the bank: Saint-Simon; Murphy, John Law; Hyde.
“The bank promises to pay . . .”: Wood.
Attempts to exhaust reserves: Hyde; Murphy, John Law.
CHAPTER 9: King of Half America
“But the bank is not the only . . .”: Harsin, p. 37.
Pitt diamond: Saint-Simon.
Mississippi colony history: Heinrich, Louisiane; Perkins.
Launch of Mississippi Company: Hyde; Murphy, John Law; Wood; Mackay.
“Natural love of indirect ways . . .”: Saint-Simon, p. 137.
“The Parlement are still doing all they can . . .”: HMC Stuart, vol. 7, 24 August 1718.
“sent immediate orders to the foot and horse guards . . .”: HMC Stuart, vol. 6.
CHAPTER 10: Finding the Philosopher’s Stone
Takeover of bank: Steuart, Principles of Oeconomy; Murphy, John Law; Shennan, Philippe, Duke of Orleans.
Law’s acquisitions: Buvat, Journal de la Régence.
William Law: Healey, Coutts & Co; Wood.
Tobacco: Minton, John Law, Father of Paper Money.
“jealous of the credit . . .”: Harsin.
“On Monday night I did not sleep . . .”: Harsin.
Tax system: Shennan; Murphy, John Law; Black, Dictionary of Eighteenth Century History.
Opposition to Law: Murphy.