Trade label of the South Sea Company mb-code DEC407-18 Also with figures

Also with figures

The cottage was allegedly used by Miles Sindercombe and his fellow conspirators in the plot to assassinate Oliver Cromwell in 1657

elevation and ground plan of St Bride's Church

View near Limehouse Bridge

designed to preserve the supremacy of the Church of England

Trade label of the South Sea Company mb-code DEC407-18 Also with figuresTrade 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