List of Bubbles.
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Mackay, Charles
The following Bubble-Companies were by the same order declared to be illegal, and abolished accordingly:
For the importation of Swedish iron.
For supplying London with sea-coal. Capital, three millions.
For building and rebuilding houses throughout all England Capital, three millions.
For making of muslin.
For carrying on and improving the British alum-works.
For effectually settling the island of Blanco and Sal Tartagus.
For supplying the town of Deal with fresh water.
For the importation of Flanders lace.
For improvement of lands in Great Britain. Capital, four millions.
For encouraging the breed of horses in England, and improving of glebe and church lands, and for repairing and rebuilding parsonage and vicarage houses.
For making of iron and steel in Great Britain,
For improving the land in the county of Flint. Capital, one million.
For purchasing lands to build on. Capital, two millions.
For trading in hair.
For erecting salt-works in Holy Island. Capital, two millions.
For buying and selling estates, and lending money on mortgage.
For carrying on an undertaking of great advantage; but nobody to know what it is.
For paving the streets of London. Capital, two millions.
For furnishing funerals to any part of Great Britain.
For buying and selling lands and lending money at interest. Capital, five millions.
For carrying on the royal fishery of Great Britain. Capital, ten millions.
For assuring of seamen’s wages.
For erecting loan-offices for the assistance and encouragement of the industrious. Capital, two millions.
For purchasing and improving leaseable lands. Capital, four millions.
For importing pitch and tar, and other naval stores, from North Britain and America.
For the clothing, felt, and pantile trade.
For purchasing and improving a manor and royalty in Essex.
For insuring of horses. Capital, two millions.
For exporting the woollen manufacture, and importing copper, brass, and iron. Capital, four millions.
For a grand dispensary. Capital, three millions.
For erecting mills and purchasing lead-mines. Capital, two millions.
For improving the art of making soap.
For a settlement on the island of Santa Cruz.
For sinking pits and smelting lead ore in Derbyshire.
For making glass bottles and other glass.
For a wheel for perpetual motion. Capital, one million.
For improving of gardens.
For insuring and increasing children’s fortunes.
For entering and loading goods at the Custom-house, and for negotiating business for merchants.