The largest quantity of stock registered in one name was three thousand pounds.

The heads of three noble houses took three thousand pounds each, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Queensbury and Lord Belhaven, a man of ability, spirit and patriotism, who had entered into the design with enthusiasm not inferior to that of Fletcher.

Argyle held fifteen hundred pounds.
John Dalrymple, but too well known as the Master of Stair, had just succeeded to his father's title and estate, and was now Viscount Stair.
He put down his name for a thousand pounds.

The number of Scotch peers who subscribed was between thirty and forty.

The City of Edinburgh, in its corporate capacity, took three thousand pounds, the City of Glasgow three thousand, the City of Perth two thousand.