Hi Carol, Attached is a spreadsheet of part of it. The query is about the meaning of RETURN, is it like a no claim discount or on a return cargo. Many thanks for your time.
Mal.F
Mal, does the museum have a scan or photograph of the original book? Presumably this extract originally covered two facing pages of a large ledger with column headings. Do they know what those headings were? Is there a preamble?
Also, do they know who the insurer was i.e. a company or a Lloyd's underwriter?
A series of marine insurance laws was passed in the late 1700s to stop certain corrupt practices, and I
think this might be an example of the consequent improvement in record-keeping. (If only I'd kept my old textbooks!)
Carol