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1689 J. Child Disc. conc. Trade E.-Indies 10 A general failure of Credit in all publick Funds, caused many Adventurers to sell their Stocks.

1699 Importance of Publick Credit 2 They lament the great Sums raised every Year to pay Interest, Annuities, &c. they think the Purchasers of Funds have had too good Bargains.

1699 Importance of Publick Credit 2 Some Gentlemen..are without difficulty prevailed upon to be angry, especially when they see an overgrown Stock-jobber's Estate swelled to such a Bulk in so small a time, by dealing in the Funds.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 55. 353 Methought my Mony chink'd..for joy of the Safety of the rest I have in the Funds.

1783 W. Cowper Let. 23 Nov. (1981) II. 183 If he be the happiest man who has least money in the funds.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 52 Funds is a general term for money lent to government, and which constitutes the national debt.

1830 Q. Rev. Mar. 489 Persons possessed of small capitals in Scotland never purchase into the public funds; having the most unbounded confidence in the solidity of their own banks, they universally deposit in those establishments all the capital which they can spare.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xx. 174 Look what the funds were on the 1st of March.

1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World ii. 10 He..must have close on a hundred and fifty thousand in the funds.

1955 C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy xiii. 90 He wore the expression of a nineteenth-century gentleman with something in the Funds.

1994 Econ. Hist. Rev. 47 696 London merchants often chose the Funds in preference to bank accounts, because government securities paid dividends or their equivalent, while cash accounts at London banks bore no interest.