stock-purse

[52: 2] These early disciples were not, indeed, required, as a term of communion, to deposit their property in a common stock-purse; but, in the overflowings of their first love, they spontaneously adopted the arrangement.

The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854

I will now proceed to shew the reader, which, perhaps, I ought to have done before, the main cause of this inveterate hostility against me, and of the stock-purse conspiracy being formed, for the declared purpose of putting me down, and, if possible, driving me out of the county.

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Henry Hunt 1804

I have no doubt that the conspiracy against me by the stock-purse gang, in the instance of Stone's assault and indictment against me, was got up for the sole purpose of getting rid of this question, as to the rights of a British Jury to give a verdict agreeable to the evidence, in spite of a ridiculous and illegal rule of Court, made at the arbitrary will of corrupt Judges.

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Henry Hunt 1804

I had, besides, ascertained that the stock-purse gang were always delighted when they found they had entrapped me into a law suit, although my late successes had caused a heavy drain upon the subscribers, some of whom began to grumble at the expense, and to declare off.

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Henry Hunt 1804

Another of the stock-purse gang, MICHAEL HICKS BEACH, of Netheravon, one of the M.P. 's for Cirencester, had brought an action of trespass against me, which was also to be tried at the same assizes; so that, with this, and the writ of inquiry in the case of Simpkins and Hunt, which was for the third time to be executed before one of the judges, my hands were pretty full of law business.

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Henry Hunt 1804

There was the business of building the Belvidere, which he would not permit to be done out of the stock-purse of the company, because I had given the workmen the plan and the orders — and then, about the tea-room — and the hour for beginning dancing — and about the subscription for Mr. Rymour’s new Tale of Chivalry — in short, I owe no consideration to Mr. Mowbray of St. Ronan’s.”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008