CHAPTER VII.

THE CORPORATION 97

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE ROYAL EXCHANGE _Frontispiece._

FACING PAGE

THE FIRST ROYAL EXCHANGE 20

THE SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE 34

INTERIOR OF THE SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE 41

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE BY FIRE, 1838 43

SOUTH SEA BUBBLE BROADSHEET, 1720 52

THE SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE--PROOF OF FIRST HEADING ON FIRE POLICIES, 1721 99

PART I.

THE HOUSE.