But when it was set up in 1711, its principal function was to absorb or convert unfunded government debt to take it off the market, to turn it into shares in the company.

但当它于 1711 年成立时， 其主要职能是吸收或转换没有资金来源的政府债务， 将其从市场上撤出，将其转变为公司的股份。

A national debt of about a hundred and twenty-eight millions, near the capital of the funded and unfunded debt of Great Britain, might, in this manner, be paid with about sixty-four millions of our present money.

一笔约一亿二千八百万的国债，接近大不列颠的有资金和无资金债务的资本，以这种方式，可以用我们现在的大约六千四百万的钱来偿还。