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Royal Exchange Assurance
Founded in 1720 and one of the two incorporated bodies (alongside London Assurance) permitted to underwrite marine insurance, an arrangement that lasted for a century.
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Established in 1802 'In order more effectually, at this alarming crisis, to promote and protect the Shipping Interest of Great-Britain, and to prevent any further infringements of the Navigation Laws; and also for the purpose of taking, not only such measures for the preservation of the rights which the Legislature has in its wisdom conferred on the Owners of British Ships, but likewise to relieve them from various extortions and inconveniences to which they were then or may hereafter be liable…'.
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Company formed to undertake the building of the first wet docks on the Thames c.
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London West India merchants, specialising in the Ceded and Neutral Islands after 1763.
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