He lost his temper when his friends asked where he kept his cash.

"Where should I keep it," he asked, "but in my own house ?" With difficulty he was induced to put his money into the hands of one of the Lombard Street men, as they were called.

Unhappily, the Lombard Street man broke, and some of his customers suffered severely.

Dudley North lost only fifty pounds; but this loss confirmed him in his dislike of the whole mystery of banking.
It was in vain, however, that he exhorted his fellow citizens to return to the good old practice, and not to expose themselves to utter ruin in order to spare themselves a little trouble.

He stood alone against the whole community.