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"Old Lady of Threadneedle Street."

— William Cobbett

January 1, 1970

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William Cobbett. Also Gilray Caricature. May 22. 1797, after the bank stopped cash payments, Feb. 26, 1797. Sheridan, Life by Walter Sichel, p. 16. Refers to the bank as an elderly lady in the city, of great credit and long standing, who had recently made a faux pas which was not altogether inexcusable; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.

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William Cobbett. Also Gilray Caricature. May 22. 1797, after the bank stopped cash payments, Feb. 26, 1797. Sheridan, Life by Walter Sichel, p. 16. Refers to the bank as an elderly lady in the city, of great credit and long standing, who had recently made a faux pas which was not altogether inexcusable; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.