ELD4872759: Barons Humphrey (VI) of Bohun (circa 1249-1298) and Roger Bigot opposing the policy of King Edward I of England concerning the financing of military campaigns by taxes, 1297 (Humphrey de Bohun and Roger Bigod (1245-1306), Earl of Norfolk, Lord Marshal of England, confront Edward I (1239-1305), had drawn up a series of complaints known as the Remonstrances, objecting to Edward's right to demand military service and the levels of taxation he was imposing - The confrontation threatened to plunge the kingdom into civil war, but both sides reunited against the threat from Scotland after the king's army was defeated by William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, 1297) Illustration from “” A Chronicle-of-England”” by James Doyle, 1864 Private collection / Bridgeman Images
ELD4870878: Economic system: the speculative bubble at the time of the Law system, the agiotors of Rue Quincampoix - Under Louis XV, some brokers set up on Rue Quincampoix, under the name of bankers, to trade public papers and to make prices play up or down for their profits, around 1720 (View of the rue Quincampoix with the speculators at the time of the system of John Law, Scottish economist, developed between 1716 and 1720 in Paris) Engraving from “Les Rues-de-Paris” by Pierre Zaccone, 1859 Collection privee / Bridgeman Images