James Dodson, ‘A Table of decrements wherein the hazard of life is esteemed to be as great as any author has conceived it to be, or as can be deduced from any Bills or Mortality hitherto made public’; ‘A Table of the present values of Annuities of 1£ each for single lives computed at 3 per cent compound interest from the beforegoing…’; ‘A Table of the Premiums payable for insuring at one payment 100£ on a Life of a given Age; deduced from the preceding Table of the Values of Annuities on Lives’; ‘A Table of the Annual Premiums payable for insuring 100 £ during the whole continuance of a single Life of any of the following Ages according to the beforegoing principles’[&c.], ca. 1756

This document contains the first table of annual premiums. James Dodson calculated it in 1756 for the promotion of the life office that was formed eventually in 1762 as the Society for Equitable Assurances. 'The promoters of the Equitable determined that the Society's premiums were to be based on the calculations made by James Dodson from the Bills of Mortality of London (1728-1750).