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<HEAD>THE Friendly SOCIETY FOR WIDOWS BEING <HI>A</HI> PROPOSAL <HI>for Supplying the Defect of Joyntures, and Securing Women from falling into Poverty and Di&s;tre&s;s at the Death of their Husbands.</HI></HEAD>
<P>EXperience Informs us every Day, of the Mi&s;ery and Calamity of Wo|men after the Death of their Husbands, which chiefly falls on &s;uch Wo|men who Marry Clergy-men, Shop-keepers, and Artificers, who, tho they may bring con&s;iderable Fortunes to their Husbands, are often times le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> in a very mean Condition.</P>
<P>For the Relief and Support of &s;uch, and that they may be Provided for whatever the Circum&s;tances and Incumbrances of their Husbands may Expo&s;e them to; There is no Office of A&s;&s;urance, <HI>by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ay of Friendly Society <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">cted</HI> for Widows, Wherein <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> the Women wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Sub&s;cribe to be Contributors to the &s;aid Society, &s;hall be a&s;&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ed to Receive 500 <HI>l.</HI> at the Death of their Hus|bands. Being a Propo&s;al of real Publick Benefit, and with very &s;mall Ad|vantage to the Undertakers.</P>
<P>In this Office Sub&s;criptions are taken, the Books for that purpo&s;e being opened on the <HI>27th.</HI> of <HI>November,</HI> 1696. where every Married Wo|man, or her Husband for her, may Enter her Name into a Regi&s;ter kept for that purpo&s;e, and &s;hall Receive a Policy or Obligation Sealed by the Common Seal of the &s;aid Office, in the Pre&s;ence of one or more of the Gover|nours of the &s;aid Office, for the Conditions of the following Settlement, which is made by Advice of Council, and may be &s;een at large at the &s;aid Office.</P>
<P>Into which Regi&s;ter, any Woman, who&s;e Name is &s;o Entered that &s;hall become a Widow at any time after Six Months, from the time of the Books being &s;hut up, on Notice and Proof made at the Office, the manner of which Proof is at Large Stated in the Settlement, and to be &s;een at the &s;aid Office, &s;he &s;hall Receive within Six Months after &s;uch Notice and Proof made, the Summ of Five Hundred Pounds, without any Deductions, except certain &s;mall Fees <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Officers, which are al&s;o &s;ettled, and to be &s;een at the &s;aid Office.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Con&s;ideration whereof, every Per&s;on who&s;e Name is &s;o Entred and Regi&s;tred <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> agree, by way <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">f <HI>Friendly Society,</HI> to Contribute her or their Propor|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> or Part of the &s;aid <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">umm of Five Hundred Pounds, whenever any Mem|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of the &s;aid Society becomes a Widow, provided the &s;aid Proportion does <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> exceed the Summ of Five Shillings.</P>
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<P>And for the Maintenance of the &s;aid Office, and keeping the &s;aid Regi&s;ter every Contributer is to Pay Five Shillings at the time of their Sub&s;cribing and One Shilling and Four Pence Quarterly, without any other Claims or Preten&s;ion what&s;oever.</P>
<P>Every Sub&s;criber is to have due Notice of every Claim, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> the &s;ame being publi&s;hed and po&s;ted up in &s;ome of the Eminente&s;t Places of the City; after which, on Non-payment, according to Rea&s;onable Limited time adju&s;ted in the &s;aid Settlement, they lo&s;e the Benefit of their former Contributions.</P>
<P>Any Sub&s;criber having continued a Member of the Society, as long as he or &s;he plea&s;es, may at any time withdraw th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">r Sub&s;cription and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e no longer obliged, upo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Notice in Writing given to the Secretary of the Office, for the time being, and delivering the Policy of A&s;&s;urance up to be Cancel'd.</P>
<P>A Copy of the Settlement is left at the Office, for any Per&s;on who is a Sub|criber to peru&s;e; wherein are many other Articles for Compleating the Propo&s;al, and for the Advantage of the Sub&s;cribers.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e 'tis very proper to ask what Security &s;hall be given for the Performance of the Conditions of this Propo&s;al, the Undertakers hereof have Appointed, That all the Money &s;hall be Depo&s;ited into the Hands of Ten Tru&s;tees, and tho&s;e Tru&s;tees not to be named by the Undertakers, but by the Sub&s;cribers them&s;elves; &s;o that they are Keepers and Di&s;po&s;ers of their own Money, and no Claim to be, but what &s;hall be Signed by the &s;aid Tru&s;tees: The &s;aid Tru&s;tees to be Cho&s;en within Twenty Days after the Clo&s;ing of the &s;aid Books; and in the mean time, the Management of the &s;aid Office is under the Di&s;po&s;al and Government of the following Gentlemen, to be joyn|ed to the &s;aid Ten Tru&s;tees, &s;o to be Cho&s;en by the Sub&s;cribers. All which may at Large be &s;een in the Settlement afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>The Books for this Sub&s;cription, are to be opened on the Twenty Seventh day of <HI>November,</HI> at the General Office of A&s;&s;urance for WIDOWS, in <HI>Aldermary</HI> Church-yard in <HI>Watling-&s;treet, London,</HI> and will be &s;hut up as &s;oon as 2000 Sub&s;criptions &s;hall be made where the whole Settlement as afore&s;aid may be &s;een; and Attendance is daily given, for the taking the &s;aid Sub&s;criptions.</P>
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<HEAD>The Names of the pre&s;ent Governors are,</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Anthony Bowyer,</HI> E&s;q; one of the Members of Parliament for the <HI>Burrough</HI> of <HI>Southwark.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dalby Thomas,</HI> E&s;q; one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Gla&s;s-Office.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James I&s;aac&s;on,</HI> E&s;q; one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Stamp-Office.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Firmin,</HI> E&s;q;</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samuel Tuffley,</HI> E&s;q;</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Dockwra,</HI> E&s;q;</ITEM>
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<P>One of which &s;aid Governours will be always pre&s;ent at the taking the Sub|&s;criptions, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Novemb.</HI> 25th, 1696.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>F. C.</HI> in the <HI>Old-Bailey.</HI> 1696.</P>
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