Trade label of the South Sea Company mb-code DEC407-18 Between the fore and hind

Between the fore and hind legs

designed to preserve the supremacy of the Church of England

View of the grammar and mathematical schools at Christ's Hospital

19th November 1966

Also with figures

Trade label of the South Sea Company mb-code DEC407-18 Between the fore and hindTrade label of the South Sea Company, 18th century (1894). The South Sea Company was founded in 1711 in order to trade with Spanish America on the assumption that the War of the Spanish Succession would end soon with a favourable treaty allowing trading. The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 was not as favourable as hoped, although confidence was boosted when George I became governor of the company. However by September 1720, in what became known as the South