Articles of agreement, made, concluded, and fully agreed upon, this, eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord 1776, and in the sixteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, ans so forth: between the several persons whose names are hereunto subscribed and seals affixed; for the well governing a society instituted in the town and port of Sandwich, in the county of Kent, for the benefit of widows, by the advice and mutual consent of the parties, in manner following, (that is to say).