Amicable Assurance Society

Amicable Assurance Society
   In Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street.
   Incorporated 1706, as an Assurance office (Dodsley, 1761). The Society purchased the Hall from the Serjeants.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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