Letters, 1766.
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Bonnell, Jane.
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Cunyngham, Francis Pierrepoint Burton, Baron, d. 1787.
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Whyte, Mark.
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The South Sea Company was founded in 1711 to trade with Spanish America, on the assumption that the War of the Spanish Succession would end with a treaty permitting such trade. The Treaty of Utrecht, 1713, was less favourable than had been hoped, but confidence in the Company remained artificially high. In 1720, there was an incredible boom in South Sea stock, as a result of the Company's proposal, accepted by parliament, to take over the national debt (South Sea Bubble). This eventually led to ...
Chenevix, Richard, 1696-1779.
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Richard Chenevix (1696/7-1779) was Church of Ireland bishop of Waterford and Lismore. In 1719, he became domestic chaplain to the second earl of Scarbrough. In 1728 he entered the service of Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth earl of Chesterfield whose influence was instrumental in furthering his career through the appointments first to the vacant Irish bishopric and later to the see of Killaloe, despite the objections of Geoge II, and finally in 1746 to the see of Waterford and Lismore. ...
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