Chapter 1 The Harburgh Company and its Lottery 1716–23, A.J.G. Cummings; Chapter 2 Sheffeild V. Starke: Institutional Experimentation in the London–Maryland Trade c. 1696–1706, Jacob M. Price; Chapter 3 Deposit Banking in London, 1700–90, Frank T. Melton; Chapter 4 The Business of Middleman in the English Pottery Trade Before 1780, Lorna Weatherill; Chapter 5 The Trading and Service Sectors of the Birmingham Economy 1750–1800, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 6 Matthew Boulton and Josiah Wedgwood, Apostles of Fashion, Eric Robinson; Chapter 7 Financing the French Navy in the Seven Years War: Beaujon, Goossens Et Compagnie in 1759, J.F. Bosher; Chapter 8 Directions for the Conduct of a Merchant’s Counting House, 1766, Jacob M. Price;