They Marry Wives with perhaps 300 l. to 1000 l. Portion, and can settle no Jointure upon them; either they are Extravagant and Idle, and Waste it, or Trade Decays, or Losses, or a thousand Contingences happen to bring a Tradesman to Poverty, and he Breaks; the Poor Young Woman, it may be, has Three or Four Children, and is driven to a thousand shifts, while he lies in the Mint or Friars un|der the Dilemma of a Statute of Bank|rupt; but if he Dies, then she is ab|solutely Undone, unless she has Friends to go to.Suppose an Office to be Erected, to be call'd An Office of Ensurance for Wi|dows, upon the following Condi|tions:Two thousand Women, or their Husbands for them, Enter their Names into a Register to be kept for that purpose, with the Names, 0