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A46571 By the King, a proclamation for the better execution of the office of making and registring policys of assurances in London England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); James II, King of England, 1633-1701. 1687 (1687) Wing J349; ESTC R37020 1,125 1

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By the King A PROCLAMATION For the better Execution of the Office of making and Registring Policys of Assurances in London JAMES R. WHereas Our late Royal Brother King Charles the Second did by several Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England Grant to Sir Allen Broderick and his Assigns the Office of Making and Registring of all manner of Assurances Policys Intimations Renunciations and all other things whatsoever that should be made upon any Ship or Ships Merchandizes or any other thing or things in the Royal Exchange or in any other Place or Places within the City of London by any manner of Person or Persons whatsoever of what Nation Condition or Quality soever he or they be either going out of this Realm or coming in or going or coming into any other Place or Places whatsoever for his own Life and the Life of William Broderick Merchant and for One and thirty Years after the death of the Survivor of them with the Feés and Profits thereof And whereas several persons pretending to be ignorant of the said Grants and not respecting the Publick Good nor considering the great Advantages which would most certainly accrue to the Merchants and other Traders of the said City of London by a due and ready compliance therewith Do for their own private Lucre presume to erect and set up private Offices for making Policys of Assurances and make no Entries thereof in the Office aforesaid by which means Merchants and other Traders not being able to know what Assurances are made upon any Ship or Goods do frequently Assure more then the value of such Ship and Goods to the great discouraging of Trade We have therefore thought fit by th●s Our Royal Proclamation with the Advice of Our Privy Council to Publish and make known the said Grants of the said Office to all Our loving Subjects to the end all Persons concerned may have recourse thereunto and that all Frauds and Abuses touching the Execution thereof may for the future be redressed and the Persons Interessed therein quieted and settled in the Possession thereof according to the purport and intent of the said Letters Patents We do hereby strictly Charge and Command all manner of Person and Persons whatsoever he or they be as well Our own Subjects as Strangers who within the Royal Exchange aforesaid or in any other Place or Places within Our said City of London shall make or cause to be made any manner of Assurance either upon Ships Goods or Merchandizes or of Moneys taken upon the Hazard or Safe Proceédings of any Ship or Ships Goods or Merchandize or of any other thing whatsoever touching or concerning the same That from henceforth the same be made and Registred by the Assigns of the said Sir Allen Broderick pursuant to the said Letters Patents and that no other Person or Persons do presume to Erect any other Office or Off●ces for Making or Registring any Assurances or Policys contrary to the said Letters Patents as they will answer the same at their Peril Given at Our Court at Whitehall this 30th day of April 1686. In the Second Year of Our Reign GOD SAVE THE KING LONDON Printed by Charles Bill Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1687.