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N. B. There is no average clause in
the policies of this Corporation; but the
assured, in case of loss, receive the full
damage sustained, deducting only three
per cent. according to the terms of the
policy.
Persons assured by this Corporation do
not depend upon an uncertain fund or
contribution, nor are they subject to any
covenants or calls to make good losses
which may happen to themselves or others.
The capital stock of this Corporation be-
ing an unquestionable security to the as-
sured in case of loss or damage by fire,
and in case of such loss or damage the
assured have as easy methods of recovery
as can be had against any person or society
whatsoever.
For the timely assistance of such as are
assured by this Corporation, they have
provided several engines and watermen,
with proper instruments to extinguish fires,
and porters for removing goods, all cloath-
ed in green; and having every one a
badge, with the figure of Britannia, hold-
ing a harp, and supported by the London
arms, to distinguish them from servants
belonging to other offices, and the badges
are all numbered; of which all persons
are desired to take notice, who intrust
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them with goods, or have any complaint
to make.
The same figure as on the badges is
affixed on buildings, &c. assured by this
Corporation. The proposals printed for
the Corporation, in 1758.
LONDON BRIDGE, appears to have been
originally built between the years 993,
and 1016, since in the first-mentioned
year, Anlaf, the Dane, sailed up the
Thames, with a fleet of ninety-three ships,
as far as Stanes; and in the last, Canute,
King of Denmark, caused a canal to be
formed on the south side of the Thames,
for conveying his ships above the bridge.
If the traditionary account of the origin
of the ancient wooden bridge, delivered
by Bartholomew Linstead, alias Fowle,
the last Prior of St. Mary Overy's con-
vent, is worthy of credit, we are indebt-
ed to the public spirit of that religious
house for this structure: " A ferrie being
" kept, says he, in a place where now the
" bridge is builded; at length the ferrie-
" man and his wife deceasing, left the
" same ferrie to their only daughter, a
" maiden, named Marie, which, with the
" goods left by her parents, as also from
" the profits arising from the ferrie, builded
" a house of sisters in a place where now
" standeth the east part of St. Mary
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