He campaigned against the ban on the admission of Jews to the freedom of the city and as sworn brokers.

They benefited from the Bank of England having finally opened its doors in 1840 to 'any sworn broker in the purchase and sale of gold bars'.

In 1617 they obtained the right to choose four sworn brokers from among their own people as members of Bourse of Hamburg (Germany's first stock exchange); and later on this number was increased to fifteen.

There lived in those days, round the corner - in Bishopsgate Street Without - one Brogley, sworn broker and appraiser, who kept a shop where every description of second-hand furniture was exhibited in the most uncomfortable aspect, and under circumstances and in combinations the most completely foreign to its purpose.