 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 408 pages
...annals of roguery. The company was established by act of Parliament in 1711, under the title of "The Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the...parts of America, and for encouraging the Fishery." Their ostensible object was the monopoly of the trade to the South Seas, and the supplying Spanish... | |
 | Edward Stanley Roscoe - 1902 - 374 pages
...legislation for the relief of the public credit and the enlarging of British commerce, there resulted the " Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and the other parts of America, "of which Harley became governor, and St. John, and Benson, the Chancellor... | |
 | Edward Stanley Roscoe - 1902 - 310 pages
...legislation for the relief of the public credit and the enlarging of British commerce, there resulted the "Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and the other parts of America, "of which Harley became governor, and St. John, and Benson, the Chancellor... | |
 | John Patterson Davis - 1905 - 316 pages
...belt" ; titles to lands previously conveyed by the company were confirmed.' The South Sea Company, the "Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain...parts of America, and for Encouraging the Fishery," was peculiar in several respects. It was the first of the great stock companies for foreign trade (except... | |
 | Georges Scelle - 1906 - 800 pages
...conquérante a la Mer du (1) Royal Company of the Governor aud Merchants of the Gréal Britain trading do the South Seas and other parts of America and for encouraging the fishery. Sud M. Vendôme avait deviné la manœuvre, et conseillait de ne pas se départir de la fermeté nécessaire,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1907 - 1120 pages
...the Government annuities. The South Sea Company, — known to the Statute Book as "The Corporation of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great...Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of South America, and for the encouragement of the Fishery," — was launched in 1711 under authority... | |
 | Great Britain. Privy Council - 1910 - 930 pages
...Leopard.*] [IV. pp. 478 & 489.] [3.] Upon reading this day at the Board the humble petition of the Governour and Company of Merchants of Great Britain Trading to the South Seas, and other parts of America and Nova Scotia. * From this time such Commissions were regularly issued to the Captains and officers of... | |
 | Vereniging Die Haghe - 1915 - 480 pages
...Junior op 5 November 1720 volmacht gaf in zake eener inschrijving van elk hunner voor £ 6120 in de Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the...parts of America and for encouraging the fishery. Deze aandeelen gaven aanleiding tot den bekenden South sea bubble en het feit dat zij een bedrag van... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1921 - 344 pages
...Royal Charter, dated September 8, 1711, which incorporated the subscribers of the debt by the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great...trading to the South Seas and other parts of America. It ordained that the Company should have a Court of Directors,2 and appointed the manner of the proceedings... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1923 - 328 pages
...Royal Charter, dated September 8, 1711, which incorporated the subseribers of the debt by the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Sens and other parts of Ameriea. It ordained that the Company should have a Court of Directors,2 and... | |
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... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America... 
