South Sea Company

Events in France now came to influence the future of the South Sea company.

The South Sea company chose to present the offer to the public in July 1719.

Or some stock I have in the South Sea Company?

The South Sea company was by no means the only company seeking to raise money from investors in 1720.

No, my displeasure was not with the South Sea Company's rough justice.

You know that my relationship with the South Sea Company is purely informal."

Simultaneously, he enters the strange, deceitful orbit of the South Sea Company.

The South Sea Company was a British joint stock company founded in 1711.

Could the South Sea Company have killed old Balfour to regain its twenty thousand pounds?

"I have discovered that the South Sea Company has been violated by forgeries, and that is not a lie.

Upon receiving these concessions from Spain, the British government granted a monopoly for both to the South Sea Company.

The Lord Treasurer Robert Harley established the South Sea Company in 1711.

"It is called A Conspiracy of Paper; or, the South Sea Company Expos'd.

The Bubble Act, which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter, was promoted by the South Sea company itself before its collapse.

At the same time, he was one of the principal sponsors of the South Sea Company scheme, planning that this company would take on the national debt.

BTW, when are you going to make me an offer for the tulip futures, internet shares and South Sea company stock I could sell you?

The South Seas Company's charter (of 1711) provided it with exclusive access to all of Middle and South America.

April-September - "South Sea Bubble", the South Sea Company collapses.

If Balfour had sold his stock ten months ago, then his transaction with the South Sea Company had come and gone ten months before his death.

Around this time his wife died and he lost most of his fortune due to bad investments including as much as £6,000 in the collapse of the South Sea Company.

Anyone who was a director of the Bank of England or East India Company was disbarred from being a director of the South Sea company.

But at this present time an occasion offers to speak in favour of this port; namely, the Greenland fishery, lately proposed to be carried on by the South Sea Company.

He describes the area of the River Plate in detail because it lay "within the limits of the South Sea Company", whose schemes had not yet burst into financial scandal.

British maritime fur traders were hindered by the East India Company (EIC) and South Sea Company (SSC).

On 21 January the plan was presented to the board of the South Sea company, and on 22 January Chancellor of the Exchequer John Aislabie presented it to Parliament.