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Digiti ized by Google THE BANK OF ENGLAND 71 interests of the Bank. Accordingly they proposed and obtained more advantageous terms than might have been entertained at a subsequent period. They offered in exchange for an extension of the Charter for twenty-five years to grant a loan of three millions for three years at 3 per cent, interest. There was great opposition to this proposal; the expenses of the war, however, made the offer of help very acceptable to the Government. Lord North spoke str...ongly in favour of the bill, "and proposed to pay off two millions of the navy debt with the money now offered him. The bill was passed and the Charter prolonged **till twelve months* notice after August 1st, 1812." In 1789 Francis Fenton, a clerk in the Bank, was executed for forgery. His crime was somewhat unconmion in its method : having been requested by a friend to purchase £50 Stock, Fenton gave him a forged receipt and at the same time obtained his signature to a transfer for £450, having led him to believe that it was an acceptance of the £50 Stock he had purchased.
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