OBSERVATIONS

ON

REVERSIONARY PAYMENTS;

ON

SCHEMES for providing ANNUITIES
for WIDOWS, and for Perfons in OLD AGE;

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The METHOD of Calculating the VALUES
of ASSURANCES on LIVES;

AND ON

THE NATIONAL DEBT.

To which are added,

FOUR

ESSAYS

On different Subjects in the Doctrine of LIFE-
ANNUITIES and POLITICAL ARITHMETICK.

ALSO,

AN APPENDIX AND SUPPLEMENT,
Containing additional Obfervations, and a complete Set
of TABLES; particularly, feveral new Tables of the
Probabilities of Life in different Situations, and of
the Values of Annuities on Lives.

The THIRD EDITION, much ENLARGE D.
BY RICHARD PRICE, D.D. F. R. S.

LONDON:

Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand.
M.DCC.LXXIII,

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE

EARL of SHELBURNE,

THIS WORK is,

With all GRATITUDE and RESPECT,

INSCRIBED,

BY

His LORDSHIP'S

Moft obliged, and

Moft obedient humble Servant,

RICHARD PRICE.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE to the First Edition Page ix
Preface to the Third Edition

CHA P. I.

P. xvii

Questions relating to Schemes for granting Re-

verfionary Annuities, and the Values of Af

Jurances on Lives

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SECT. I. Of the London Annuity, and

Laudable Societies for the Benefit of Widows.

p. 64

SECT. II. Of the Affociation among the Lon

don Clergy and the Minifters in Scotland,

for providing Annuities for their Widows.

p. 84

SECT. III. Of the best Schemes for provid-

ing Annuities for Widows.
P. 95

SECT. IV. Of Schemes for providing Life-

Annuities, which are not to commence 'till

particular Ages; and, particularly, of the

Societies lately established in London for the

Benefit of Old Age.

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P. 106

SECT.