1. Time-series purists will object that any irregularity in the timing of the observations violates the assumptions of the statistical technique and so the irregular appearance of the Courant rules it out for time-series analysis. Given the frequency of religious holidays in the eighteenth century even in Protestant Amsterdam and London, however, a case can be made that the irregularities in its appearance reflect precisely irregularities in trading activity on the Effectenbeurs. It is the market activity, after all, that is the underlying process, not the appearance of the newspaper.
2. Recursive estimation of mixed autoregressive-moving average order
3. and his “Dutch Investment in Eighteenth Century England,” Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 12 (Apr. 1960), pp. 434–39. Van Dillen's works have been cited earlier.
4. The Amsterdam on London exchange rate was given in Dutch schellingen and penningen banco per English pound. Each Dutch schelling contained 12 penningen.
5. The Huguenot Contribution to the Early Years of the Funded Debt, 1694–1714;Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London,1955