Single sheet. Stab-stitch holes and remains of binding to gutter. Docket title printed to verso. Creased, browned, and damp-stained.

A rare survival of a handbill issued by the insurers to the Society of Mines Royal replying to allegations of fraudulent behaviour in a lately published paper entitled Reasons humbly offer'd by the Societies of the Mines Royal &c. (London, 1720?) The office-keepers here take issue with the 'malicious' accusation that one of their deliberately underwrote a policy using fictitious names in regards to a shipment bound for the East Indies which was subsequently lost; making clear that the policy in question was 'made by a person since dead, and who was not an office-keeper, but one who acted as a broker for discounting notices, and did sometimes make policies' and furthermore 'altho' the fact charg'd on him, should be prov'd true, yet that can't justify the Societies of the Mines-Royal, &c. in villifying innocent persons on that account'.

ESTC records copies at only two locations (BL and Senate House).