A full account of the rise, progress, and advantages of Dr Assheton's proposal (as now improved and managed by the worshipful Company of Mercers, London) for the benefit of widows of clergymen and others; by settling jointures and annuities at the rate of thirty per cent.
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A full account of the rise, progress, and advantages of Dr Assheton's proposal (as now improved and managed by the worshipful Company of Mercers, London) for the benefit of widows of clergymen and others; by settling jointures and annuities at the rate of thirty per cent.
Author
Assheton, William, 1641-1711.
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London :: printed for B. Aylmer, against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill,
1700.
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Subject terms
Assheton, William, 1641-1711.
Mercers' Company (London, England) -- Early works to 1800.
Survivors' benefits -- Early works to 1800.
Clergy -- Pensions -- Early works to 1800.
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"A full account of the rise, progress, and advantages of Dr Assheton's proposal (as now improved and managed by the worshipful Company of Mercers, London) for the benefit of widows of clergymen and others; by settling jointures and annuities at the rate of thirty per cent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40535.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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The Obligation of the Company.
13. WE the Wardens and Commonalty of the
Mystery of the Mercers of the City
of London, do acknowledge to have Received
of A. B. Inhabitant in the Parish of _____ _____
in the _____ _____ of _____ _____ the Sum
of _____ _____ Pounds, which he hath Subscribed
for the Benefit of _____ _____ Aged _____ _____
Years, the Daughter of _____ _____ of _____ _____
his present Wife; And we do
promise and oblige our Selves, and our Successors,
in case the said A. B. shall Dye (Except in such
manner as is Excepted in the General Proposal)
before his said Wife, and leave her a Widow, to
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pay unto her, during her Life, the Sum of _____ _____
Yearly, free of all Charges, being 30▪ l.
per Cent per Annum of the said A. B. his
Subscription, at the two usual Feasts of the An∣nunciation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and
St. Michael the Archangel: The first Payment
to be made on the first of the said feast-days that
shall happen six Months or more after the Decease
of the said A. B. she producing this Obligation
and due Certificates of her Husband's Death. To
the which Payment we bind our Selves and our
Successors firmly by these Presents. In Testimony
whereof, We have hereunto affixed the Seal of the
said Company the _____ _____ Day of _____ _____ Anno Dom. 169 _____ _____
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