An estimate of places for life: Shewing How many Years Purchase a Place for Life is worth. How long a Man must hold his Place to have the Value, Principal and Interest of the Purchase Money. How much he has coming in per Cent. per Annum for his Money. What a Place for Life is worth; the Income not exceeding 1000 l. per Ann. All at One View. The Whole being Calculated upon the Chances of the Probabilities of Lives in General. To which is prefix'd, An Account of Places which are in the Disposal of the Lord Mayor; Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, also of others more immediately belonging to the Crown; being Collected from the latest and best Lists Extant: Wherein is shewn the Nature and respective Business of the Principal Officers, and in whose Gift most of the said Places are. The whole being Interspersed with Directions and Instructions for obtaining Places in General. By Richard Hayes, Teacher of Merchants Accounts in Great Eastcheap, Author of The New Method for Valuing Annuities upon Lives.

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M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]