Excerpt from The South Sea Bubble The sources of information concerning the rise and fall of the South Sea Company are numerous. The principal authorities are the various Acts of Parliament relating to the Company, the Journals of the Houses of Parliament, the Reports of the Committee of Secrecy appointed by the House of Commons to investigate the proceedings of that corporation, the Political State of Great Britain, ' Tindal's continuation of Rapin's History of England, ' the Parliamentary History of England, ' ...
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Excerpt from The South Sea Bubble The sources of information concerning the rise and fall of the South Sea Company are numerous. The principal authorities are the various Acts of Parliament relating to the Company, the Journals of the Houses of Parliament, the Reports of the Committee of Secrecy appointed by the House of Commons to investigate the proceedings of that corporation, the Political State of Great Britain, ' Tindal's continuation of Rapin's History of England, ' the Parliamentary History of England, ' contemporary pamphlets by Defoe and others, and Coxe's Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole.' Interesting side-lights are to be found in the Wentworth and Suffolk Papers, the 'journal to Stella, ' the Diary of Mary Lady Cowper, the correspondence of Swift and Pope, and in the numerous volumes issued by the Historical mss. Commission (especially the Bath, Buckinghamshire, Carlisle, Clements, Fortescue, Ketton, Onslow, Portland, and Stuart Information may also be gleaned from Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, ' Stanhope's History of England, ' and Wright's Caricature History of the Georges.' Brief accounts will be found in the anonymous pamphlet (which is largely a reprint of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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