Excerpt from Real Life in London, or the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. And His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, Through the Metropolis, Vol. 1: Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life The Tower of London, 469. Trinity Square, 470. Confusion of titles, 471. The Trinity House, 472. Rag Fair commerce, 474. Itinerant Jews and Depredators, 475. Living by the wits, 476. Lamentable state of the Jews, 77. Various money-getting arts, 478. Duke's Place and Synagogue, 478. Combination of business and religion, 480. Portuguese Jews, 481. Bank of England, 482. Real Life at the Bank, 483 An eccentric character, 484. Chaos of the mind, 485. Lamentable effects of forgery, 486. Singular aberration of mind, 487. Imaginary wealth, 488. Bank Corporation, 489. J oint-stock Compa nies, 490. Auction Mart - Courtois, 491. A votary of Plu tus, 492. Irresistible arguments, 493. Wealth without pride, 494. Royal Exchange, 495. A prophecy fulfilled, 497. Strange alterations, 498. Lloyd's Gresham Lectures, &c.499. The essential requisite, 500. Symptoms of disturbance, 501. Royal Exchange fracas, 502. Egress by storm, 503. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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