Change Alley during the frenzy of the South Sea Bubble. The speculation mania in the 18th century England which ended in the financial ruin of many of its investors, the South Sea Company was founded in 1711 with a view to restructuring government debt and restoring public credit. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published

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