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Catholics, 31, 73, 129; power in Cornelis, Neeltgen, 8, 15, 16, 17, 33
England, 214–15; usury regulations Corver, Jan Jansz, 25
and, 131 Corver, Joan, 165
Central Station, 29, 30 Cosett, Balthasar, 150, 151
charter: articles, of VOC, 14–15; counterparties, 67, 169, 197, 198, 204;
request, VOC fifty year renewal of, for forward contract, 200, 201;
71; of States General, for VOC, 9, liability of, 119; Portuguese Jews
10, 12, 13–14, 153 as, 194; reneging by, 137, 170, 175,
chief participants: VOC books 191, 210
inspection by, 75, 151; VOC court cases: about fraudulent shares,
shareholders as, 75 80–86; about incomplete payments,
Christians, 125, 135–36, 138, 185; 86–87, 92; about naked short selling,
moneylending and, 130–31; as 65, 96, 99, 165–67, 203, 204; about
traders, 161 tulip bulb trading, 119–20, 211. See
Coen, Jan Pietersz, 113 also aldermen’s court; lawsuits
collateral loans: margins on, 177–78; covered call, 195–96
for shares, 176–77. See also secured Coymans, Elisabeth, 177–78, 192
loans crash of 1688: van Beuningen, C.,
Collegie van de Actionisten Trading and, 211–14, 224–27; Confusión
Club, 169–73, 197, 241; De Plaetse de confusiones on, 228–29, 233;
Royael meeting of, 171, 184; Velters defaults during, 227; Velters and,
and Beens attendance at, 171 216, 233; VOC share price slump
Collegie van de Blommisten, 171 in, 211
Cologne, Bishopric of: alliance with crisis: C. van Beuningen and, 211–14,
France, 218; Louis XIV pact with, 224–27; of confidence, 208–11;
142 crash of 1688, 211–14, 216–19,
commission, 35, 37, 48, 77; of brokers, 224–27, 228–29, 233; Disaster Year,
139, 191 178, 204–7; rumor mill, 219–24;
commodities merchants, 27–28 William III, 214–16
Company of the Fourteen Ships: capital Cruijsbergen, Frans van, 109; fraud
subscription of, 53; le Maire, victim, 79, 82–83
director of, 53–54 Cunha, Balthasar da, 207
confidence, 66, 94, 141, 167, 208–11 Cunha, Sebastiaen da: counterparties to
Confusión de confusiones (de la Vega), court, 204; honor of, 168–69; losses
1–6, 50, 141, 228–35; on bear, 221, of, 165–66
222; on brokers, 231; on bull, 221; Curiel, Mozes. See Nunes da Costa,
on certainty of war, 223; characters Jeronimo
in, 3; on crash of 1688, 228–29, Cuypers, Jos, 183
233; motives for writing, 231; on
options, 168, 191–92, 229–30; on Damman, Jacques, 55
rash decisions, 157–58; on rumors Dam Square, 87, 91, 100, 143–46, 217;
of war, 221–22; on share trading, 2, economic infrastructure around,
3–4, 233; on trading clubs, 171; on 107–8; share trade on, 164, 170,
trading techniques, 229–31; value to 201, 238
modern readers, 3, 234; versions and Delft chamber, of VOC, 9, 12, 155–56
editions of, 2; on war, 132 De Plaetse Royael: Beens and Alvares
contingent claims: drawbacks of, 188; Machado at, 184–87; Collegie van
forward contracts with, 187–88 de Actionisten meeting at, 171, 184
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