Ledger accounts for each holder of stock, recording the various sales and purchases in date order. Each account is balanced at the close of a volume and transferred to the next one. The entries are arranged roughly alphabetically. The ledgers provide the only means of tracing entries in the stock...
Books containing printed forms of transfer and acceptance, normally signed by both parties. Witnessed by an employee of the Company, usually the Accountant General up to September 1750 and the Transfer Accountant thereafter, but occasionally by a member of their staff. Not indexed, but arranged ...
These refers to the calls of £6 1/4% in June 1709, £6 1/4% in September 1709 and £12 1/2% in June 1711, of the total amount of £3,163,200 which, by 1708, had by adjustment become the amount of Capital of the United Company. The books record transactions mainly between June 1709 and December 17...
Registers of subscribers to the £800,000 stock of 1786
Scope & Content:
Two books containing original entries by persons offering to subscribe. Each book opens with a statement that this is additional capital stock to be raised in accordance with the Resolution of the Court of Directors on 12 Jul 1786, and that it has received the approval of Parliament and the Lor...