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It immediately followed a similar crash on the Paris stock market, known as the Mississippi Bubble. The origins of both episodes are complex. However, the South Sea Bubble was popularly supposed to have been caused by fraud and folly. The financial centres of Europe were interlinked and hence the South Sea Bubble had effects beyond the London market. The crash inspired plays, satirical prints and political writings. 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Paul<span></span></span> <span class="property documentLanguage"><span class="de">Original auf</span><span class="en">Original in</span> <span id="originallanguage_top">English</span>, <span class="de">angezeigt auf</span><span class="en">displayed in</span> <span id="articlelangselector"><a href="" id="articlelanguage_top">English</a><ul id="avllist"><li><a href="/paulh-2015-en"><span class="languagename_short">en</span><span class="languagename"><span class="de">Englisch</span><span class="en">English</span></span></a></li></ul></span><span class="arrowdown">▾</span></span> <br> <span class="documentModified"> <span class="en">Published</span><span class="de">Erschienen</span>: <span id="dateselector"> <span id="publicationsdate_top" href="#">2015-11-04</span> <ul id="datelist" class="select-popup"></ul> </span> </span> <a class="printthis" onclick="window.print(); return false;" href="#"> <img class="en" src="/_theme/img/print_12x12.png" alt="Print" title="Print"> <img class="de" src="/_theme/img/print_12x12.png" alt="Drucken" title="Drucken"> </a> <span id="emailauthorlink"><!-- --><a href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/author/paulh"><!-- --><img class="en" alt="E-mail" src="/_theme/img/mail_12x12.png" title="E-mail the author"><!-- --><img class="de" alt="E-mail" src="/_theme/img/mail_12x12.png" title="E-Mail an den Autor"></a> </span> <a id="dcexport" class="xmlexport link-trailing-slash" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-media/european-media-events/helen-j-paul-the-south-sea-bubble-1720/dcexport"><!-- --><img class="en" src="/_theme/img/xml_12x12.png" alt="XML Metadata" title="save metadata as XML"><!-- --><img class="de" src="/_theme/img/xml_12x12.png" alt="XML Metadaten" title="Metadaten als XML speichern"> </a>    <span id="form-widgets-shorttitle" style="display:none">South Sea Bubble</span> </div> <p class="documentDescription"> <span id="parent-fieldname-description" class="hyphenate">The South Sea Bubble of 1720 was a major financial crash in London. It immediately followed a similar crash on the Paris stock market, known as the Mississippi Bubble. The origins of both episodes are complex. However, the South Sea Bubble was popularly supposed to have been caused by fraud and folly. The financial centres of Europe were interlinked and hence the South Sea Bubble had effects beyond the London market. The crash inspired plays, satirical prints and political writings. Many artworks were refashioned along a South Sea theme to capitalise on a public taste for financial scandalmongering.</span> </p> <dl class="portlet toc" id="document-toc"> <dt class="portletHeader"><span class="de">Inhaltsverzeichnis</span><span class="en">Table of Contents</span></dt> <dd class="portletItem"></dd> </dl> <div id="parent-fieldname-text" class="hyphenate"> <div id="articlebody"> <div class="fieldErrorBox"></div> <span id="tableOfContents" data-toc="true"></span> <h2>Context</h2> <p>The South Sea Bubble (1720) is one of the most famous examples of a financial bubble. Prices on the <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4074335-4">London</a></span> stock market rose to unsustainable heights before crashing in the autumn of 1720. The boom was primarily associated with a company called the South Sea Company.<a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-media/en/mediainfo/the-old-south-sea-house-threadneedle-street" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="The Old South Sea House, Threadneedle Street "><img alt="Walter Thornbury: The Old South Sea House, Threadneedle Street, 1873 (1887 copy). Size and medium unknown. Source: British Library HMNTS 010349.l.1. Image extracted from page 558 of volume 1 of Old and New London, Illustrated, by Walter Thornbury. Original held and digitised by the British Library. This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ONL_%281887%29_1.540_-_The_old_South_Sea_House.jpg " class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/south-sea-bubble-bilderordner/the-old-south-sea-house-threadneedle-street/@@images/image/thumb" title="The Old South Sea House, Threadneedle Street"></a> The company was founded in 1711, primarily to assist the <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4022153-2">British</a></span> government with its war debts.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_0_marker1"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_0">1</a></sup></span> The War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713) was still raging.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_1_marker2"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_1">2</a></sup></span> The British government was in arrears with its payments to naval contractors for supplies. South Sea shares were given to naval contractors in lieu of cash payments. Later the company was called on to assist the government in managing the national debt. It offered government creditors its shares in exchange for their debt obligations, such as government annuities. It was paid a fee by the government and also granted the <i>Asiento</i>: a monopoly contract to trade in slaves to the <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4055964-6">Spanish</a></span> colonies in the <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4001670-5">Americas</a></span>. Spain had granted the <i>Asiento</i> to <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/805714/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Anne of Great Britain (1665–1717)">Queen Anne (1665–1717)</a><a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-media/en/mediainfo/queen-anne-166520131714-in-the-house-of-lords" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Queen Anne (1665–1714) in the House of Lords">[<img alt="Peter Tillemans (ca. 1684–1734), Queen Anne (1665–1714) in the House of Lords, Öl auf Leinwand, 139.8 x 122.9 cm, ca. 1708–1714; Bildquelle: Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014, OM 489, http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/405301/queen-anne-1665-1714-in-the-house-of-lords." class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/verfassungsmodelle-bilderordner/koenigin-anne-166520131714-im-house-of-lords-img/@@images/image/thumb" title="Königin Anne (1665–1714) im House of Lords IMG">]</a> as part of the peace negotiations culminating in the <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/alliances-and-treaties/mike-rapport-alliances-and-treaties-cooperation-and-exchange-in-war-and-peace" title="Alliances and Treaties">Treaty of Utrecht (1713)</a>. The Queen had then passed the contract on to the South Sea Company. After the war ended, both <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4018145-5">France</a></span> and Britain had to restructure their finances as a matter of urgency. This was a race neither could afford to lose, as financial strength underpinned <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/warfare-1450-1789/aaron-graham-warfare-1450-1789" title="Warfare (1450–1789)">military power</a>. Military developments had made wars more and more costly. In Britain, the South Sea Company offered to restructure more of the national debt. In France, a financial bubble was inflating. It is known to posterity as the Mississippi Bubble. As it burst, the South Sea Bubble was also inflating on the London market. The bursting of the bubbles was seen as catastrophic by contemporaries. Popular histories have continued the theme and focused upon ideas of gambling manias and fraud. This article situates the South Sea Bubble within its European context and discusses how it became a European financial and media event.</p> <h2>The Economic Rationale and Mechanisms</h2> <p>The South Sea Company's foundation in 1711 followed the standard joint-stock company model.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_2_marker3"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_2">3</a></sup></span> A joint-stock company held a royal charter which allowed it certain privileges which other companies did not have. Firstly, joint-stock company shareholders were protected by limited liability. This meant that they could not be pursued for debts owed by the company. Secondly, joint-stock company shares were readily assignable, i.e. they could be passed easily to another holder by sale or gift.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_3_marker4"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_3">4</a></sup></span> This was an important feature not shared by many other early financial instruments. For instance, government annuities were not readily assignable and could not be sold quickly if the holder required cash urgently. Joint-stock companies such as the South Sea Company sometimes performed debt-for-equity swaps for the government. They would offer their shares in exchange for government debt such as annuities. A debt for equity swap was supposed to benefit all parties. The government would reduce its costs and the complexity of managing its debts. The company would gain the right to increase its capital and gain bargaining power. The former government debt holders would have a more liquid asset with the possibility of higher returns.</p> <p>The government had issued a large number of annuities as part of its war-financing programme. Annuities were supposed to pay a fixed sum each year, but the government's payments often fell into arrears. Holders of annuities might prefer to swap their claims on the government for some other sort of investment. A debt-for-equity swap allowed them to exchange their annuities for joint-stock company shares. They would still be paid an annual fee which would now be administered by a company. Their new shares would also give them the possibility of dividend payments or capital gains (by selling the shares on). The shares were easy to sell or bequeath, which was a valuable feature in itself. It was difficult for a large number of small creditors to pressurise a government. By joining together under the aegis of a joint-stock company, small creditors could have a stronger voice. This might make it more difficult for the government to fall behind with payments.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_4_marker5"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_4">5</a></sup></span></p> <p>The government could also benefit from a debt-for-equity swap. The bureaucratic costs were reduced as it could now deal with one company, rather than a myriad of small creditors. It had to pay a single fee to the company, rather than different fees to different people. Government debts had often been arranged on a short-term and ad hoc basis and were highly complex to manage. One type of debt contract which was particularly onerous was the so-called 'irredeemable debt'. Irredeemables were annuities which the government had no right to redeem, i.e. the government could not compel the holders of this type of debt to sell it back, so creditors often did not receive all the payments they were entitled to. This has to be taken in consideration when comparing annuities with South Sea shares.</p> <p>Ideally, the government would have the option to redeem its debts. If market interest rates fell, then the government should borrow money cheaply in the market and use it to pay off its more expensive debts. For example, suppose that the government borrows £100 at an interest rate of 5 per cent. If the market interest rate drops to 2 per cent, then the government should borrow enough money to pay back the principal of £100 plus any interest owed and any bureaucratic fees. It now must pay 2 per cent rather than 5 per cent on its debt, but this should still constitute a saving. The government could not automatically take advantage of a fall in the interest rate when dealing with irredeemable debt. Therefore, it was important to persuade the holders of irredeemable annuities to relinquish their claims in exchange for joint-stock company shares.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_5_marker6"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_5">6</a></sup></span></p> <p>A number of debt-for-equity swaps had already occurred. For example, the Bank of England was founded in 1694 and issued its equity in exchange for government debt. The same situation occurred in 1698 when the <a href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/europe-and-the-world/economic-relations/chris-nierstrasz-east-india-companies" title="East India Companies">New East India Company</a> was founded.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_6_marker7"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_6">7</a></sup></span> There is evidence that investors were prepared to pay a premium for increased liquidity.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_7_marker8"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_7">8</a></sup></span> The South Sea Company undertook to convert the irredeemable annuities, alongside some redeemable ones, in 1719.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_8_marker9"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_8">9</a></sup></span> It offered to pay a fee to the government for the privilege. It also bribed prominent people for their support, both within Parliament and at Court.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_9_marker10"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_9">10</a></sup></span> It was permitted to increase its capital in relation to the amount of debt converted. It then had the option to issue more shares. The debt for equity swap was undertaken in tranches throughout 1720.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_10_marker11"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_10">11</a></sup></span> The company also sold shares directly onto the primary market. It did this in four batches, known as the money subscriptions. Potential buyers could opt to pay for their shares in instalments, rather than paying the whole fee upfront.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_11_marker12"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_11">12</a></sup></span> This enabled a wider number of people to participate in the market than could otherwise afford to. It may mean that more naïve investors also entered the market.</p> <p>One of the selling points of South Sea Company shares<a data-class="external-link" href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3415625&partId=1&people=183597&peoA=183597-4-8&page=1" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="South Sea Company, Bill of Exchange; Digital Copy: British Museum"><img alt="Anonymous: Exchequer Bill for £100. A note to inflate the South Sea Bubble, 7 June 1720. 17.6 x 11.9 cm. Source: The British Museum, London http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/e/exchequer_bill_for_%C2%A3100.aspx." class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/south-sea-bubble-bilderordner/exchequer-bill-for-a3100/@@images/image/thumb" title="Exchequer Bill for £100"></a> was the <i>Asiento</i> contract. It gave monopoly rights to trade in slaves to Spanish <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/backgrounds/colonialism-and-imperialism/benedikt-stuchtey-colonialism-and-imperialism-1450-1950" title="Colonialism and Imperialism, 1450–1950">colonies</a> in the Americas. There was also an annual ship which was licensed to bring goods to the colonies. The company was in a good position to smuggle more goods in. Lastly, there was a remote possibility that the Spanish empire would crumble. If that had happened, then the company would have been well placed to claim some of the land for Britain. A share in the South Sea represented a claim upon the government fee and potential gains from slaving and the trade in goods. It also gave the holder a stake in whatever else the company could grab from the Spanish: something similar to a lottery ticket in fact.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_12_marker13"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_12">13</a></sup></span> The company itself was closely linked with fortunes of the state, or what has been termed 'the fiscal-military state'.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_13_marker14"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_13">14</a></sup></span> It restructured part of the state's debts. It held the <i>Asiento</i> because of Britain's gains in the War of the Spanish Succession. It worked alongside another joint-stock company, the Royal African Company, to ship slaves from Africa to the Americas. It was given convoy protection and other support by the Royal Navy.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_14_marker15"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_14">15</a></sup></span></p> <p>The merchant and financiers themselves may have understood these issues. However, the general public and political elite lacked understanding of the practicalities involved. Stock markets were a novelty and there was no body of financial theory to draw upon. Europeans were more familiar with a Christian tradition which labelled financial activities as immoral. It was easy to claim that the stock market was full of mad gamblers and fools. Even today, the 'gambling mania' explanation is still popular. However, it is not necessary for everyone in the market to be foolish to have a bubble. If a proportion of market participants are over-optimistic, they can exert an upward pressure on share prices. Informed traders observe this phenomenon and buy shares in order to sell them after the price has risen further.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_15_marker16"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_15">16</a></sup></span> In the South Sea case, there was also an influx of funds from <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4044660-8">Paris </a></span>as the Mississippi bubble was bursting.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_16_marker17"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_16">17</a></sup></span> This would also have put an upward pressure on prices. The South Sea Company directors did offer loans to their shareholders which might have pushed up their own share price.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_17_marker18"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_17">18</a></sup></span> There were few alternative investments with the same features as joint-stock shares. There were also spare funds which could be invested, now that the disruption caused by war was over. The War of the Spanish Succession had disrupted trading routes and transferred resources to government spending. Similarly, the Great Northern War (1700–1721) had affected the important <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-networks/economic-networks/margrit-schulte-beerbuehl-networks-of-the-hanseatic-league" title="Networks of the Hanseatic League">Baltic trading routes</a>, which supplied maritime stores and foodstuffs needed by Britain. This war was in its declining stages after the death of the king of <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4077258-5">Sweden</a></span> in 1718. Merchants benefitted from a peace dividend and predictably this would have an upward effect on share prices for trading companies.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_18_marker19"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_18">19</a></sup></span></p> <h2>International Finance and the London South Sea Bubble</h2> <p>The South Sea Bubble immediately followed a similar, but not identical, event in the Paris market. The Mississippi Bubble takes its name from a company known to posterity as the Mississippi Company. The company was formed from an assortment of earlier joint-stock companies, many of which were connected to overseas trade.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_19_marker20"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_19">20</a></sup></span> It was part of a wider reformation of the French economy, under the aegis of <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/14836706" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="John Law (1671–1729)">John Law (1671–1729)</a>. Law's <i>s</i><i>ystème</i> or System was a wholesale effort aimed at improving French state finances. There was no equivalent to it anywhere else in Europe. By comparison, British reforms were fairly piecemeal. Law had come to power as the Controller General of Finances for the new regent of France, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/71395774" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Phillippe Charles d'Orléans (1674–1723)">Phillippe Charles d'Orléans (Duke of Orléans) (1674–1723)</a>. The death of <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/268675767/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Louis XIV of France (1638–1715)">Louis XIV (1638–1715)</a><a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-media/en/mediainfo/louis-xiv-of-france-163820131715" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) ">[<img alt="Ludwig XIV. von Frankreich IMG" class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/modell-versailles/ludwig-xiv/@@images/image/thumb" title="Ludwig XIV. von Frankreich IMG">]</a> meant a change in regime. Louis's Controller General of Finances, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/64218872" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Nicolas Desmaretz (or Desmarets) (1648–1721)">Nicolas Desmaretz (or Desmarets) (1648–1721)</a>, was dismissed in favour of Law. Desmaretz had attempted to reform French finances in a gradual way.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_20_marker21"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_20">21</a></sup></span> His uncle had been the most famous financial reformer of Louis' reign: <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/59175183" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683)">Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683)</a>. Desmaretz wished to impose a tax on income. This required property owners to declare their income and was in contravention of the social structure of the time.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_21_marker22"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_21">22</a></sup></span> The nobility and the church had previously been largely exempted from taxation and were not in favour of these proposals. Desmaretz was unpopular with the elite due to his reforms and was replaced by Law. Law's system was designed to avoid destabilising the social order. Instead, Law's company was to settle land in <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4036394-6">Louisiana</a></span> (which was much larger than the present day state of the same name).<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_22_marker23"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_22">23</a></sup></span> It was to merge many different trading companies into one leviathan. Law also issued an official paper currency: the first in Europe.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_23_marker24"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_23">24</a></sup></span> At first, Law was successful. However, he overreached himself. He fatally undermined public confidence in his banking system by enforcing draconian restrictions on the French. He banned them from investing abroad and from holding their wealth in the form of gold.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_24_marker25"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_24">25</a></sup></span> Boom was followed swiftly by bust. As each national stock market experienced a bubble, investors looked for a safe haven elsewhere. The South Sea Bubble was partially inflated due to contagion effects as money came in from Paris.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_25_marker26"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_25">26</a></sup></span></p> <p>The links between the European financial centres markets were numerous. The <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/theories-and-methods/knowledge-transfer/veronika-lipphardt-david-ludwig-knowledge-transfer-and-science-transfer" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Knowledge Transfer and Science Transfer">transmission of information</a> might have been slower than today, but financial links were made possible by transport <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-networks/economic-networks/christian-marx-economic-networks" title="Economic Networks">networks</a>. Trading at a distance required the potential investor to travel or to communicate with a representative. Correspondence could move along all the major routes of travel, at a reasonably fast pace. The Canton of Berne managed to invest funds on the London market. They had an agent in London, but remained in contact with him by letter.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_26_marker27"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_26">27</a></sup></span> Similarly, Lady <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/26921750" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Elizabeth Hastings (1682–1739)">Elizabeth (Betty) Hastings (1682–1739)</a> and her sisters communicated with a friend in London who traded on their behalf.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_27_marker28"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_27">28</a></sup></span> They were based in <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4079436-2">Yorkshire</a></span> at some distance from London. Particular individuals were sought out as conduits of financial knowledge or to serve as brokers, even if they were not technically employed as such. The Duchess of Chandos, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/70154272" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Cassandra Brydges of Chandos (1670–1735)">Cassandra Brydges (1670–1735)</a>, was approached by her relatives and friends to assist their investments in the South Sea. Records of her family's losses in the affair can be found in her letters.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_28_marker29"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_28">29</a></sup></span> The movement of letters facilitated the movement of capital. For example, several Scots observers believed that there was a severe drain on the money supply as Scots invested in the London market.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_29_marker30"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_29">30</a></sup></span> There is evidence to show that capital moved from Paris to London and then to Amsterdam and Hamburg. Dutch investors faced low interest rates in the Netherlands, and hence looked abroad for higher returns. Dutch money went into the French market during the Mississippi boom and then into the London market at the time of the South Sea. After that, there was a speculative boom in the Netherlands itself and the situation was reversed. Some British investors then moved their money to the Netherlands.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_30_marker31"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_30">31</a></sup></span></p> <p>The London market was affected by a variety of <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/europe-and-the-world/economic-relations/rolf-walter-economic-relations-between-europe-and-the-world" title="Economic Relations Between Europe and the World">international events</a>. War and international politics had a major impact, but so did natural events, as shall be seen below. Information, gossip and rumours were relayed in a variety of ways. The centres of trading life were the Royal Exchange and Exchange Alley in the City of London. The Royal Exchange had various designated sections or 'walks' which housed merchants specialising in particular regions. For example, one walk might be for the Levant trade. Merchants came from a variety of social backgrounds and nations.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_31_marker32"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_31">32</a></sup></span> Likewise, the South Sea Company directors were an international group. Some, like Sir <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/34801577" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Theodore Janssen (ca. 1658–1748)">Theodore Janssen (ca. 1658–1748)</a>, were of foreign descent. (Janssen was the son of a <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/europe-on-the-road/confessional-migration/ute-lotz-heumann-confessional-migration-of-the-reformed-the-huguenots" title="Confessional Migration of the Reformed: The Huguenots">Huguenot</a>.) Others, like <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/41694112" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Lambert Blackwell (died 1727)">Lambert Blackwell (died 1727)</a>, had spent time abroad. (Blackwell had held diplomatic posts in various <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4027833-5">Italian</a></span> cities.)<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_32_marker33"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_32">33</a></sup></span> For foreign visitors places like the Royal Exchange were a major tourist attraction.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_33_marker34"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_33">34</a></sup></span> They were also free to visit the coffee houses of Exchange Alley where much of the financial trading took place. Coffee houses were information centres.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_34_marker35"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_34">35</a></sup></span> They provided newspapers for their clientele. Newspapers reported foreign and domestic events and some even reported share prices. (Defoe warned his readers against the deliberate reporting of false news in order to manipulate share prices in the short term.) <span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_35_marker36"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_35">36</a></sup></span> Some bad news was real enough, such as a serious outbreak of plague in <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4037694-1">Marseilles</a></span> in 1720. Plague spread panic, but also restricted trade movements due to quarantine restrictions.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_36_marker37"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_36">37</a></sup></span> It was used as a metaphor for the disorder of the financial system. <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/39375774" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Daniel Defoe (ca. 1661–1731)">Daniel Defoe's (ca. 1661–1731)</a> <i>A Journal of the Plague Year</i> was a comment upon the Bubble.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_37_marker38"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_37">38</a></sup></span> Meanwhile, John Law believed that the plague had undermined his System by making people prefer specie (gold and silver coins) to paper.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_38_marker39"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_38">39</a></sup></span> Not only was specie viewed as having an intrinsic value, it would be accepted internationally, unlike local paper money. Specie was needed to underpin public confidence in times of crisis, and sometimes it had to be imported. The Bank of England was able to assist the South Sea in stabilising its operations. Carswell claimed that the Bank needed to bring in bullion from Rotterdam to do this.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_39_marker40"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_39">40</a></sup></span></p> <h2>The South Sea Bubble and the European Public Sphere</h2> <p>The internationalisation of finance was mirrored by the international nature of commentaries upon finance. Pamphlets, books and artworks of all sorts travelled around the same transport networks that brokers' letters did. Some of the satires looked back to earlier episodes and some to existing popular tropes. Many <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/models-and-stereotypes/the-dutch-century/dagmar-freist-the-dutch-century" title='The "Dutch Century"'>Dutch</a> satires make reference to Tulipmania: a financial bubble which afflicted the <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4042203-3">Netherlands</a></span> in the 1630s.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_40_marker41"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_40">41</a></sup></span> Tulips appeared as a reminder of past follies. However, the Dutch also made use of carrots and cabbages. The meaning would probably be lost on those outside the Netherlands. Carrots refer to Hoorn, a carrot-growing region, which gave its name to the Hoorn Company. Cabbages were used by the Dutch to symbolise nonsense.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_41_marker42"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_41">42</a></sup></span> Dutch plays and satires criticised John Law and foreign speculation, as well as activities on the Dutch markets.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_42_marker43"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_42">43</a></sup></span> The greatest collection of this sort is <i>The Great Mirror of Folly </i>or <i>Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid<a data-class="external-link" href="http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3438648?image_id=1071592" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library."><img alt="Anonymous: Het Groote Tafereel Der Dwaasheid ... Familien En Persoonen Van Hooge En Lage Stand Zyn Geruineerd, En in Haar Middelen Verdorven, En De Opregte Negotie Gestremt, Zo in Vrankryk, Engeland Als Nederland ... Gedrukt Tot Waarschouwinge Voor De Nakomelingen in ’t Noodlottige Jaar, Voor Veel Zotte En Wyze. 1720. Frontispiece. Source: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3438648?image_id=1071592." class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/south-sea-bubble-bilderordner/het-groote-tafereel-der-dwaasheid/@@images/image/thumb" title="Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid"></a>.</i> It comprises satirical prints, poetry, plays, commentary and even financial prospectuses.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_43_marker44"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_43">44</a></sup></span> <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/backgrounds/the-book-market/paul-g-hoftijzer-the-dutch-republic-centre-of-the-european-book-trade-in-the-17th-century" title="The Dutch Republic, Centre of the European Book Trade in the 17th Century">Dutch prints</a> were used in London to comment upon the South Sea Bubble, even though some of the cabbage and carrot references did not travel well. (Dutch prints were often adapted by English engravers to suit the local market.)<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_44_marker45"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_44">45</a></sup></span> Despite cultural differences, the market for prints was international. There was a strong demand for political commentary.</p> <p>Prints now appeared often enough to make the print-shop a political institution, with crowds pressing their noses against the windows to see the latest comment on the issues of the day, from the South Sea Bubble to the American Revolution.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_45_marker46"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_45">46</a></sup></span> <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/17268409" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="William Hogarth (1697–1764)">William Hogarth (1697–1764)</a> was the most famous British printmaker of the early eighteenth century. Although he was only at the beginning of his career, he created 'the only original Bubble print by an English artist'.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_46_marker47"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_46">47</a></sup></span> Hogarth's <i>South Sea Scheme</i><a data-class="external-link" href="https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-south-sea-scheme" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="William Hogarth, Emblematical Print of the South Sea; Digital Copy: The British Museum."><img alt="William Hogarth: Emblematical Print of the South Sea. Engraved by Thomas Cook, [London]: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, August 1, 1809. Harvard University Library, Bleichroeder Collection CD gb 10. http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/historicalreturns/fb/slide9.html" class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/south-sea-bubble-bilderordner/emblematical-print-on-the-south-sea-scheme/@@images/image/thumb" title="Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme"></a> is also one of the most famous images relating to the South Sea Bubble. It uses some of the standard European imagery relating to financial crises. For example, women are shown as representatives of immorality or folly.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_47_marker48"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_47">48</a></sup></span> Hogarth also provided more details for a home audience. The setting shows St Paul's Cathedral and the monument to the Great Fire of London. The print attacks <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/europe-on-the-road/jewish-migration/tobias-brinkmann-jewish-migration" title="Jewish Migration">Jews</a>, who were vilified by <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/transnational-movements-and-organisations/international-organisations-and-congresses/samuel-salzborn-antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">anti-Semites</a> across Europe for their supposed financial dealings.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_48_marker49"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_48">49</a></sup></span> It also attacks Catholics, as it shows the Pope gambling. This type of prejudice was clearly meant only for a Protestant audience.</p> <p>The Bubble inspired intellectual endeavours, as well as popular satire. <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/100192823" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="George Berkeley (1685–1753)">George Berkeley's (1685–1753)</a> <i>An Essay towards preventing the Ruin of Great Britain</i> (1721) was one such work.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_49_marker50"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_49">50</a></sup></span> Berkeley put forward a variety of remedies for the nation's current woes. <i>Cato's Letters</i> were 'the first substantial response to the Bubble, a celebrated series of essays'.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_50_marker51"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_50">51</a></sup></span> Famous authors, such as <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/61551003" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Alexander Pope (1688–1744)">Alexander Pope (1688–1744)</a> and <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/14777110" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)">Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)</a>, used the crisis to attack the government. The bookseller, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/73995150" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Edmund Curll (1675–1747)">Edmund Curll (1675–1747)</a>, apparently saw the Bubble 'as a publishing opportunity'.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_51_marker52"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_51">52</a></sup></span> The actor-manager, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/51763613" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Colley Cibber (1671–1757)">Colley Cibber (1671–1757)</a> had a similar idea. Cibber adapted <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/2474502" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622–1673)">Molière's (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622–1673)</a> <i>Les Femmes Sauvantes</i> with 'a South Sea twist'.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_52_marker53"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_52">53</a></sup></span> Curll published <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/41874559" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Susanna Centlivre (ca. 1667–1670)">Susanna Centlivre's (ca. 1667–1670)</a> <i>A Woman's Case: in an Epistle to Charles Joye, Esq., Deputy Governor of the South Sea</i>, amongst other writings.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_53_marker54"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_53">54</a></sup></span> Cibber used the South Sea episode as a means to attack his rivals, amongst them Pope and Swift.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_54_marker55"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_54">55</a></sup></span></p> <p><i> </i></p> <p>One author argues that the South Sea Bubble was a 'watershed' event which separated Daniel Defoe's earlier writings from his later output.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_55_marker56"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_55">56</a></sup></span> Another argues that it led to a rise in misogynistic writings, from the popular press to the literary elite.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_56_marker57"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_56">57</a></sup></span> Literary depictions of the South Sea Bubble and the system of credit relied on sexual metaphors and allegorical female figures.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_57_marker58"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_57">58</a></sup></span> In reality, women were able to invest in a variety of financial instruments, including shares. The potential for female financial independence threatened the existing social order and gender roles. The crash allowed the existing order to reassert itself, and this may underpin much of the commentary on the Bubble (created by men). The bursting of the Bubble led to the complaints that the populace was being punished for its immorality. One author argues that the government enacted legislation to improve the public morals, including a ban on the 'Hell-fire Clubs': social clubs for privileged men who wished to flout the social order.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_58_marker59"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_58">59</a></sup></span> The date of the legislation (the Bill to Prevent Blasphemy and Profaneness) was 1721. The date may be significant as it immediately followed the bursting of the Bubble. The Bubble episode was popularly supposed to have been caused by immoral behaviour. <span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_59_marker60"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_59">60</a></sup></span></p> <p><a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/2480890" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="John Gay (1685–1732)">John Gay (1685–1732)</a> lost heavily, and wrote <i>The Beggar's Opera</i> in the aftermath of the crash.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_60_marker61"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_60">61</a></sup></span><a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-media/en/mediainfo/hogarth-beggar2019s-opera-scene-v" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Hogarth, The Beggar's Opera"><img alt="William Hogarth (1697–1764): The Beggar’s Opera, Scene V, ca. 1728, 56 × 72,5 cm, oil on canvas, Tate Gallery, London, source: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. Via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Hogarth_016.jpg. Public Domain. " class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/south-sea-bubble-bilderordner/hogarth-beggar2019s-opera-scene-v/@@images/image/thumb" title="Hogarth, Beggar’s Opera, Scene V"></a> The opera showed 'how little separated the criminal world of the "honest" highwayman for the "fine gentlemen" who made their money from swindles and corruption'.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_61_marker62"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_61">62</a></sup></span> It was a great success. Much of the play's satire was aimed at Sir <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/98289961" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Robert Walpole (1676–1745)">Robert Walpole (1676–1745)</a> for his role in shielding some of those involved in the South Sea bribery. Walpole came to power in the aftermath of the South Sea crash. He is usually credited with being Britain's first prime minister and he held power until 1742. Walpole was not personally responsible for the financial rescue plan. <span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_62_marker63"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_62">63</a></sup></span> His real contribution was his management of the political drama. He instituted a government enquiry, known as the Secret Committee. He also allowed various key figures to be publicly punished. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/30957095" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="John Aislabie (1670–1742)">John Aislabie (1670–1742)</a>, was even sent to the Tower of London: a baroque touch. Public anger was fierce. A debate in Parliament was particularly heated with insults being thrown at the company directors.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_63_marker64"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_63">64</a></sup></span> It was taken for granted that the country was ruined. However, Walpole managed to stop the enquiry from going too far and destabilising the Hanoverian regime. He allowed a key witness, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/33714133" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Robert Knight (1675–1744)">Robert Knight (1675–1744)</a>, to escape.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_64_marker65"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_64">65</a></sup></span></p> <h2>Conclusion</h2> <p>There is little evidence that the country faced lasting difficulties due to the Bubble,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_65_marker66"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_65">66</a></sup></span> whereas the collapse of the Mississippi scheme had long-lasting effects upon the French political landscape.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_66_marker67"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_66">67</a></sup></span></p> <p>The political and social effects of the South Sea crash were not as marked as in the French case. There was criticism of 'stock-jobbing': an ill-defined term which usually refers to harmful stock market activity. Activities could be damaged by association with 'stock-jobbing'. The turnpike act which allowed toll roads to be constructed was criticised in this way in 1727.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_67_marker68"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_67">68</a></sup></span> It is difficult to know precisely what people gained and lost in the crash. Those who gained in the Bubble had no reason to proclaim the fact. Those who lost, and especially those who were ruined, might have no incentive to hide their distress. The British Parliament had instituted an inquiry which eventually led to the seizure of the South Sea Directors' estates. There was talk of compensating those who lost in the Bubble and also revoking any financial contracts made before the crash.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_68_marker69"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_68">69</a></sup></span></p> <p>A London merchant named Matthew Wymondesold (ca. 1687–1757) made his fortune in the Bubble. A parliamentary enquiry "alleged that [he had] a sweetheart deal [which] allowed Matthew to buy a huge tranche of stocks at 40 per cent below market price".<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_69_marker70"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_69">70</a></sup></span> Dr <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/15927328" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="John Radcliffe (1652–1714)">John Radcliffe (1652–1714)</a> made money in the South Sea episode from his investments. He endowed a number of Oxford institutions, including the Radcliffe Infirmary and the Radcliffe Camera.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_70_marker71"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_70">71</a></sup></span> A careful analysis of the Bank of England's records shows that those who invested their money in the Bank did quite well. They included a number of female investors.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_71_marker72"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_71">72</a></sup></span> The bookseller, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/51548076" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Thomas Guy (1644–1724)">Thomas Guy (1644–1724)</a> likewise paid for his famous hospital in London partially out of the proceeds of the Bubble. Guy had bought his South Sea shares as a long-term investment designed to protect a steady, low risk, cash flow for his charitable projects. Later, the bubble inflated and he wisely sold his shares.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_72_marker73"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_72">73</a></sup></span> If those who clamoured for redress had been entirely successful, men like Guy would have had to turn over their gains to those who had lost. They were termed the 'South Sea sufferers' in the Parliamentary records.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_73_marker74"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_73">74</a></sup></span></p> <p>There were several famous people who appeared to have lost substantial amounts, and their letters and records survive. For example, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/66497400" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="John Toland (1670–1722)">John Toland (1670–1722)</a>, the philosopher, apparently lost everything.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_74_marker75"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_74">75</a></sup></span> The politician, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/25028267" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Philip Wharton (1698–1731)">Philip, Duke of Wharton (1698–1731)</a> lost £100,000.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_75_marker76"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_75">76</a></sup></span> It was long believed that London lost its place as a leading player in the<a href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/de/threads/europa-und-die-welt/wirtschaftsbeziehungen/slave-trade" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Slave Trade"> slave trade</a> because of the South Sea Bubble.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_76_marker77"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_76">77</a></sup></span> In fact, Britain retained its position in the slave trade but the <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads/courts-and-cities/catia-antunes-early-modern-ports-1500-1750" title="Early Modern Ports">ports</a> of <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4090130-0">Bristol</a></span> and <span class="external-geo-link-container" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4036068-4">Liverpool</a></span> specialised and took market share away from London.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_77_marker78"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_77">78</a></sup></span> Similarly, there is no clear evidence that Sir <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Isaac Newton (1642–1726)">Isaac Newton (1642–1726)</a> lost a fortune in the crash as is popularly believed.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_78_marker79"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_78">79</a></sup></span> There are many myths of the South Sea Bubble, as one author has cogently argued.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_79_marker80"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_79">80</a></sup></span> One relates to the number of 'bubble companies' which sprang up around the South Sea Bubble. The public interest in finance, and the fact that there was capital to invest, encouraged the foundation of a number of new ventures. However, there were also joke promotions. Carswell found no evidence for the existence of the most famous one: the company 'for a project which shall hereafter be revealed' (see below).<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_80_marker81"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_80">81</a></sup></span></p> <p>Over the years, the South Sea Bubble became a symbol of folly and fraud. Symbolism, by its very nature, simplifies the actual event until it becomes a series of basic ideas. <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/77450273" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Charles Mackay (ca. 1812–1889)">Charles Mackay's (ca. 1812–1889)</a> book <i>Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds</i> devotes much space to both the South Sea and the Mississippi episodes. It gives a very broad-brush account of both, and is reliant on the more outlandish primary source material. Mackay's book was astoundingly popular in the Victorian era and still enjoys some fame today.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_81_marker82"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_81">82</a></sup></span> A nineteenth-century print shows Garraway's coffeehouse<a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-media/en/mediainfo/garraway2019s-coffee-house" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Garraway’s Coffee House "><img alt="Anonymous: Garraway’s Coffee House, from Walter Thornbury, Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people, and its places, vol 2, p. 174. London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1873. Source: archive.org https://archive.org/stream/oldnewlondonnarr02thor#page/174/mode/2up via https://baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/garraways-coffee-house/." class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/south-sea-bubble-bilderordner/garraway2019s-coffee-house/@@images/image/thumb" title="Garraway’s Coffee House"></a> (where shares were traded) as the 'center of discredit' relating to the South Sea episode.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_82_marker83"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_82">83</a></sup></span> <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/39375533" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Noël Coward (1899–1973)">Noël Coward (1899–1973)</a> wrote a play entitled <i>The South Sea Bubble</i> in the 1940s.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_83_marker84"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_83">84</a></sup></span> The name was famous enough to be easily recognisable, even though the play was not about the events of 1720. Two recent novels have used the South Sea Bubble as a backdrop.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_84_marker85"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_84">85</a></sup></span> Over time, the complicated events of 1720 have been overshadowed by the South Sea Bubble as a motif. It is often mentioned in relation to later financial events. The details are often confused or missing. <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/5207026" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Andrew G. Haldane (born 1967)">Andrew G. Haldane (born 1967)</a>, Executive Director of Financial Stability at the Bank of England, compared problems in modern markets with the South Sea Bubble. The <i>Guardian</i> newspaper quoted him as saying:</p> <blockquote>One of the South Sea stocks was memorably 'a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is'. Banking became the 21st-century equivalent.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_85_marker86"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_85">86</a></sup></span></blockquote> <p>Thus the South Sea episode becomes a metaphor, a cautionary tale or a punchline in the story of other events. Its own history is more complicated.</p> <p class="author"><a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/120424225/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Helen Julia Paul (born 1975)">Helen Julia Paul</a></p> </div> <h2>Appendix</h2> <h3>Sources</h3> <p>Berkeley, George: An Essay towards preventing the Ruin of Great Britain, London 1721, online: <a data-class="external-link" href="https://books.google.de/books?id=UKs9AAAAcAAJ" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="An Essay towards preventing the Ruin of Great Britain">https://books.google.de/books?id=UKs9AAAAcAAJ</a> [29.04.2015].</p> <p>Centlivre, Susanna: A Woman's Case: In an Epistle to Charles Joye, Esq: Deputy-Governor of the South-Sea, London 1720.</p> <p>Coward, Noël: Coward Plays, 1: Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue, Huntingdon 2012.</p> <p>Defoe, Daniel: A Journal of the Plague Year, London 1722, online: <a data-class="external-link" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="A Journal of the Plague Year">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htm</a> [29.04.2015].</p> <p>Gay, John: The Beggar's Opera, London 1728.</p> <p>Goddard, Robert: Sea Change, London, London 2000.</p> <p>Liss, David: Conspiracy of Paper, New York 2000.</p> <p>Seager, Ashley: Banking System like South Sea Bubble, says senior Bank of England official, in: The Guardian, 1. July 2009, online: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jul/01/bank-england-south-sea-bubble">http://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jul/01/bank-england-south-sea-bubble</a> [29.04.2015].</p> <h3>Literature</h3> <p>Altorfer-Ong, Stefan: State Investment in Eighteenth-Century Berne, in: History of European Ideas 33 (2007), pp. 440–462.</p> <p>Baines, Paul and Rogers, Pat: Edmund Curll, Bookseller, Oxford 2007.</p> <p>Brewer, John: The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State 1688–1783, London 1994.</p> <p>Burke, Peter: Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, New York 1978.</p> <p>Cameron, Hector Charles: Mr. Guy's Hospital, 1726–1948, London 1954.</p> <p>Carlos, Ann M. and Neal, Larry: The Micro-Foundations of the Early London Capital Market: Bank of England shareholders during and after the South Sea Bubble, 1720–25, in: Economic History Review 59 (2006), pp. 498–538.</p> <p>Carswell, John: The South Sea Bubble, Thrupp 2001.</p> <p>Chancellor, Edward: Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, New York 2000.</p> <p>Clery, Emma: The South Sea Bubble and the Resurgence of Misogyny: Cato, Mandeville and Defoe, in: Emma Clery (ed.): The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce and Luxury, Basingstoke 2004, pp. 51–73.</p> <p>Dickson, Peter George Muir: The Financial Revolution in England: A Study in the Development of Public Credit, 1688–1756, London 1967.</p> <p>Frost, Robert I.: The Northern Wars: War, State, and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558–1721, London 2000.</p> <p>Galbraith, John Kenneth: A Short History of Financial Euphoria, New York 1994.</p> <p>Garber, Peter M.: Famous First Bubbles, in: Journal of Economic Perspectives 4 (1990), pp. 35–54.</p> <p>Glaisyer, Natasha: The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660–1720, Woodbridge 2006.</p> <p>Goetzmann, William N. et al. 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This would have united France and Spain and undermined the balance of power in Europe. An alliance against France was formed, which included Britain. The alliance won, but the war was costly on all sides. In the event, a Bourbon did become king of Spain. This was under the proviso that he relinquished his claim to the throne of France.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_2"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_2_marker3">^</a></sup> Scott, Constitution 1911, pp. 276–308.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_3"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_3_marker4">^</a></sup> Neal, Rise of Financial Capitalism 1993, pp. 12–13.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_4"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_4_marker5">^</a></sup> Neal, Rise of Financial Capitalism 1993, p. 91.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_5"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_5_marker6">^</a></sup> Paul, South Sea Bubble 2011, pp. 79–80.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_6"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_6_marker7">^</a></sup> Neal, Financial Capitalism 1993, p. 91.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_7"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_7_marker8">^</a></sup> Neal, Rise of Financial Capitalism 1993, pp. 93–94.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_8"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_8_marker9">^</a></sup> Roseveare, Financial Revolution 1991, pp. 54–55.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_9"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_9_marker10">^</a></sup> Scott, Constitution 1911, p. 241.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_10"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_10_marker11">^</a></sup> Neal, Rise of Financial Capitalism 1993, p. 98.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_11"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_11_marker12">^</a></sup> Roseveare, Financial Revolution 1991, pp. 56–57.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_12"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_12_marker13">^</a></sup> Paul, South Sea Bubble 2011, p. 56.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_13"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_13_marker14">^</a></sup> Brewer, Sinews of Power 1989.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_14"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_14_marker15">^</a></sup> Paul, Joint-Stock Companies 2008, pp. 277–294.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_15"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_15_marker16">^</a></sup> Tirole, Speculation 1982.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_16"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_16_marker17">^</a></sup> Neal, Financial Capitalism 1993, pp. 70–71.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_17"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_17_marker18">^</a></sup> Carswell, South Sea Bubble 2001, p. 109.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_18"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_18_marker19">^</a></sup> Frost, Northern Wars 2000, pp. 226–230.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_19"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_19_marker20">^</a></sup> Velde, John Law's System 2007, p. 276.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_20"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_20_marker21">^</a></sup> McCollim, Assault on Privilege 2012, pp. 1–13.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_21"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_21_marker22">^</a></sup> McCollim, Assault on Privilege 2012, p. 1.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_22"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_22_marker23">^</a></sup> Murphy, John Law 1997, p. 188.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_23"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_23_marker24">^</a></sup> Velde, John Law's System 2007, pp. 118–277.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_24"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_24_marker25">^</a></sup> Velde, John Law's System 2007, p. 279.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_25"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_25_marker26">^</a></sup> Neal, Financial Capitalism 1993, pp. 70–71.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_26"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_26_marker27">^</a></sup> Altorfer-Ong, State Investment 2007, pp. 440–462.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_27"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_27_marker28">^</a></sup> Laurence, Lady Betty Hastings 2006, pp. 533–540.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_28"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_28_marker29">^</a></sup> O'Day, Cassandra Brydges 2007.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_29"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_29_marker30">^</a></sup> Walsh, Bubble on the Periphery 2012, pp. 107–108.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_30"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_30_marker31">^</a></sup> Goldgar, Tulipmania 2007, pp. 305–306.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_31"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_31_marker32">^</a></sup> Glaisyer, Culture 2006.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_32"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_32_marker33">^</a></sup> Carswell, South Sea Bubble 2001, pp. 244–255.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_33"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_33_marker34">^</a></sup> Glaisyer, Culture 2006.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_34"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_34_marker35">^</a></sup> Murphy, Origins 2009, pp. 116–117.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_35"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_35_marker36">^</a></sup> Sutherland, Restoration Newspaper 2004, p. 133.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_36"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_36_marker37">^</a></sup> Carswell, South Sea Bubble 1720, p. 166.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_37"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_37_marker38">^</a></sup> Defoe, Plague Year 1722, and Rogers, Eighteenth-Century Encounters 1985, pp. 151–167.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_38"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_38_marker39">^</a></sup> Murphy, John Law 1997, p. 288.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_39"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_39_marker40">^</a></sup> Carswell, South Sea Bubble 2001, p. 136.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_40"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_40_marker41">^</a></sup> Goldgar, Tulipmania 2007, pp. 306–307.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_41"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_41_marker42">^</a></sup> Goldgar, Tulipmania 2007, p. 306.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_42"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_42_marker43">^</a></sup> Hanawalt and Grotans, Living Dangerously 2007, pp. 150–151.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_43"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_43_marker44">^</a></sup> Goetzmann, Great Mirror 2013.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_44"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_44_marker45">^</a></sup> Clery, South Sea Bubble 2004, p. 53.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_45"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_45_marker46">^</a></sup> Burke, Popular Culture 1978, p. 264.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_46"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_46_marker47">^</a></sup> Paulson, Hogarth 1991, p. 68.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_47"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_47_marker48">^</a></sup> Clery, South Sea Bubble 2004, pp. 51–53.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_48"><sup><a href="#InsertNoteID_48_marker49">^</a></sup> Paul, South Sea Bubble 2011, p. 92.</li> <li id="InsertNoteID_49"><sup><a 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