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Considerations on the bill now depending in the House of Commons, for enabling parishes to grant life-annuities to poor persons, upon purchase, in certain circumstances, ... Being an appendix to the pamphlet, intitled, "A proposal for establishing life-annuities in parishes for the benefit of the industrious poor."
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1775 Mur (b.w.) Af.342.7 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maseres, Francis, 1731-1824 11740
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 59,[1]p. ; 8°.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for B. White, 1773.
- Notes:
- Anonymous. By Francis Maseres.
- The 'Proposal for establishing life-annuties in parishes for the benefit of the industrious poor' was by 'Eumenes', a pseudonym of Maseres.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Mansfield, Lord Mansfield's speech, q.v.; item 7 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (109): sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885 to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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