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“The public had run upon this new subscription . . .”: Hardwicke, State Papers. Anthony Morse is discussed by Edward Chancellor in Devil Take the Hindmost.
Contemporary descriptions and anecdotes of rue Quincampoix: Defoe; Buvat; Barbier; Saint-Simon; Charlotte Elizabeth, etc.; Wood, Cochut and Mackay also relate many.
“It is certain that the commerce . . .”: PRO SP78 166/88a.
CHAPTER 11: The First Millionaire
Anecdotes about Law: chiefly in Wood; Saint-Simon; Charlotte Elizabeth; Mackay.
“Every day I had a hundred impertinent demands . . .”: ms. Méjanes, 195v.
Rumors of Law’s infidelities: Soulavie; Barbier; Buvat.
“never discussed politics with a whore . . .”: quoted by Pevitt.
“Law is in love with Mlle de Nail . . .”: HMC Stuart vol. 6.
“If you want your choice of duchesses . . .”: Wood.
Law’s freedom of Edinburgh: Political State, September 1719.
Investments recorded in Buvat, Barbier, etc.; diamonds: Healey.
Art: Journal de Rosalba Carriera.
Design of ceiling: Buchan, Frozen Desire.
Economic reforms: Buvat; Shennan; Perkins.
“the people being generally so oppressed with taxes . . .”: Veryard, An Account of Diverse Choice Remarks.
“When it pleases Your Majesty to create an office . . .”: quoted by Cronin.
Abolition of offices: Shennan.
“the richest subject in Europe . . .”: Law frequently describes himself thus in ms. Méjanes, e.g. 149v.
Share price rises: Murphy, John Law.
“had built a seven-storey building . . .”: quoted by Perkins.
Throws money to the crowd: Soulavie.
Stair’s growing animosity: Hardwicke, State Papers; Murray, Stair Annals.
“The Regent has already reaped many solid advantages . . .”: letter from Bladen to Stanhope October 16, 1719, PRO 78/166 38.
“He spared no occasion . . .”: PRO SP 78/166.
Friendship with Jacobites Dillon, Mar, etc.: letters in HMC Stuart vol. 4 and 5.
Sotheby’s portrait of Law appeared in Woolton House sale December 6-7, 1993, lot 584, attributed to Herman Vandermyn.
CHAPTER 12: Mississippi Madness
Mississippi colony: Heinrich; Steuart, Principles of Political Oeconomy, Book IV.
Cantillon and Law: Murphy, Cantillon; Minton, John Law.
Account of the arrival of Law expedition: Bib Nat Fran MS 14613.
“With regard to my Louisiana colony . . .”: ms. Méjanes, 192.
Pulteney’s account of India Company’s progress: PRO SP 78/166 92.
Transportations recorded in Buvat, Saint-Simon, and many other published memoirs.
Allocations of concessions, transportations and Law declared controller general: PRO SP 78/166 95.
CHAPTER 13: Descent
“I have spoken to a Frenchman who is lately come from the Mississippi . . .”: PRO 78/166.
“In the end alchemy . . .” quoted by Edward Chancellor in Devil Take the Hindmost
Share prices and introductions of primes: PRO SP 78/166 110; significance of primes discussed in Murphy, John Law.
“I am told that most things are considerably dearer . . .”: PRO SP 166/78 176.
“Constraint is contrary to the principles . . .”: quoted in Shennan.
Acquisition of royal shares: ibid.
“The rage of the people is so violent and so universal . . .”: Hardwicke, State Papers.
Law’s breakdown: ibid.
CHAPTER 14: The Storms of Fate
“The silver is to be employed in such foreign trades . . .”: PRO SP 78/166.
Crime and civil unrest in Paris: recounted in Defoe and numerous French memoirs including Buvat, Marais, Saint-Simon.
Monetary policy: Murphy, John Law; du Hautchamp; Pulteney’s letters, PRO SP 78/166.
“When M. le D demanded the revocation . . .”: ms. Méjanes, 130.
CHAPTER 15: Reprieve
“Lundi j’achetai des actions . . .”: Anon, quoted in Hyde.
Law’s arrest and audience with the regent: Fauré, La Banqueroute de Law; Murphy, John Law; Hyde.
“the only man capable of getting them out of the maze they were in”: Duc d’Antin memoirs, quoted by Fauré.
“We saw this day a rare thing . . .”: ibid.
Changes following Law’s reinstatement: Marais.
“It is thought he will influence the commissaries a point to take Mr. Law’s accounts . . .”: PRO SP 78/166.
South Sea Bubble: Carswell, The South Sea Bubble.
“The hurry of our stock-jobbing . . .