Lives of the Founders of the British Museum : With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors And Other Benefactors, 1570-1870
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Some of the later enterprises of Sir William Courten had been carried on in conjunction with another famous merchant, Sir Paul Pindar, who like himself was a large creditor of the Crown. The administration of Pindar's estate had fallen into the hands of a certain George Carew, who seems to have imagined that the restoration of royal authority in England would bring with it opportunities, to an energetic man, of winning a new fortune out of the remnants of the old fortunes which the fall of roya...lty had helped to ruin. Just before Charles the Second came back, this man busied himself in buying up claims against Cotjrten's estate as well as claims against Pindar's. He THE FOUNDERS OP THE SLOANE MUSEUM. 261 had a stock of energy. He had also the prospect of ac- book i, quiring a good standpoint at Court, in addition to his TmT present possession of a good training in the mysteries of o°°™ BUS English law. He was ready to devote all his energies to s loane ° . J ° Museum. the business, and to encounter at once with the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch Republic, the Government of Barbadoes, and a host of adversaries at home.
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