| 總結: | <p>This thesis seeks to examine the circumstances of the London mercantile community in the crisis of the 1690's and to relate the contrasting experience of groups within it to the attack on the Last India company. This latter issue is taken as a convenient focus towards which all investigations of the mercantile community contained here converge - either directly or indirectly.</p>
<p>The results throw light on the paradox of how the great institutions of the eighteenth-century city -namely the Bank of England and the East India Company - were either founded, as in the former case, or much extended, as in the latter case, during a decade of crisis, Thus while focusing ultimately on the attack on the East India Company, no opportunity is missed to point out how crucial was the role played by the London mercantile community in enabling England to survive to the modest victory at Ryswick.</p>
<p>In defining the circumstances of the London mercantile community during the 1690's, new statistical series have been constructed from fiscal sources, and from figures culled from port books, to present for the first time a quantitative measure of both the extent and the chronology of the crisis of the decade. To these figures are added the “Hallage' receipts of the London cloth markets which supply an invaluable indicator of activity in the country's largest single market.</p>
<p>Continued in thesis ...</p>
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