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South Sea Directors Expelled and Custody Ordered 1721
In 1721 the House ordered the seizure of books and papers from South Sea Company figures including Robert Knight Robert Surman John Grigby and Elias Turner Sir George Carwal and Company. Sir John Blunt Lambert Fellows and others were seized. Jacob Sawbridge and Sir Theodore Fanffen faced expulsion after a breach of trust. The Secrecy Committee was to seize all related papers and take key directors into custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Chaplin
Theodore Fanffen
Jacob Sawbridge
General Roffe
South Sea
Edward Wortley
Hutcheson
Clayton
Robert Knight
Robert Surman
John Grigby
John Grigsby
South Sea Company
Hoge
Sloper
Elias Turner
George Carwal
John Blunt
John Lambert
John Fellows
Sawbridge
Sir Theodore Fanffen
Serjeant At Arms
Committee of Secrecy
Robert i
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