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Losses in South Sea Scheme Debated by Parliament
In a heated session Parliament debated equitable loss bearing for South Sea stock holders amid objections to a new scheme. Robert Walpole pressed the resolution, backed Craggs and others, and the House passed the recommitment motion 267 to 134. A bill to punish mutiny and desertion followed, with a committee named to investigate South Sea Act executions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Walpole
Craggs
Et Craggs
Aiflabie
Lownds
Stanhope
Serjeant
South Sea
Thomas Broderick
Archibald Hurtcheson
Joseph Fekyll
Rolls
Edward Wortley
Thomas Pengelly
William Clayton
Edward Jeffreys
Robert Lord Viscount Molesworth
Thomas Strangways
William Sloper
Nicholas Lechmere
Datchy
General Rose
Dixie Windsor
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