The History of Insurance Vol 1 [Hardcover]

This set gathers together key writings which chart the formative years of insurance and reviews important stages in the history of the subject from contemporary perspectives.This set gathers together key writings which chart the formative years of insurance and reviews important stages in the history of the subject from contemporary perspectivesVolume 1 FIRE Introduction Note on Copy Texts Mr Newbold, Londons Improvement and the Builders Security Asserted, by the apparent advantages that will attend their easie charge, in raising such a joint-stock as may assure a Re-Building of those Houses which shall hereafter be Destroyed by the Casualties of Fire (1680) The Fire Office, From the Insurance Office for Houses on the Back-Side of the Royal-Exchange (1680) The Fire Office, extracts from Arguments for Insuring Houses from Fire (1680-1) The Fire Office, September 16th 1681. An Advertisement from the Insurance Office for houses etc. (1681) The Fire Office, A Table of the Insurance Office at the Back-side of the Royal Exchange (1681) The Fire Office, A Table for Insurance of Houses from Fire from One Pound per annum to a Hundred for Thirty-one Years, or Under (1681) The Fire Office, A Table of the Insurance Office at the back-side of the Royal Exchange (1685) The Fire Office, A Table shewing the Rates of Insuring Houses from One Year to Seven: at the Fire-Office, Kept against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill: And at the Rainbow-Coffee[1]House by the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet (1700) Phenix Office, Two notices (1705) Phenix Office, Example policy of the Phenix Company (1705) Corporation of London, At a Common Council holden in the chamber of the Guildhall___Proposals for Insuring of Houses in Cases of Fire (1681) Corporation of London, A Table of all Terms of Years from One to Thirty One Inclusive; and from thence by every Ten years to one Hundred Inclusive, and from thence for Ever (1681) Corporation of London, Fire Insurance Policy (c. 1682) An enquiry whlÇ