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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the Honourable Committee of PARLIAMENT appointed for Pri&s;oners.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The mo&s;t humble Petition of Sir <HI>David Cuningham</HI> Pri&s;oner in the Upper-Bench, and the re&s;t of the Creditors of <HI>James Enyon</HI> E&s;quire, lately called Sir <HI>James Enyon</HI> Baronet decea&s;ed.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat the &s;aid <HI>James Enyon</HI> in and about the year 1640. borrowed and became indebted unto &s;everal Creditors, who&s;e Names and Debts are hereunto annexed, in the Summe of Eleven thou&s;and and &s;even hundred pounds of clear principall money, which with the intere&s;t thereof due and in arrears, is now in the whole the Summe of Nineteen thou|&s;and pound and upwards; for the mo&s;t part of all which &s;aid debt your Petitioner Sir <HI>David Cu|ningham</HI> is bound for and with the &s;aid <HI>James Enyon</HI> as his Surety, and is no wi&s;e able to pay the &s;ame; The &s;aid <HI>James Enyon</HI> about the year 1642. made a Deed of Bargain and Sale of his Man|nor of nether <HI>Itchington</HI> in the County of <HI>Warwick,</HI> unto four friends in tru&s;t, to be by them &s;old for and towards the payment of his debts; which &s;aid deed is in it &s;elf &s;omewhat defective in opinion of Councell, in which re&s;pect a Decree in the High Court of Chancery was obtained about a year and a half ago, the better to &s;upply and &s;trengthen the &s;aid Deed, neverthele&s;&s;e Purcha&s;ers are not well &s;atisfied therewith, the &s;aid <HI>James Enyon</HI> having left three daughters under age, the elde&s;t of them married.</P>
<P>In con&s;ideration whereof, your Honours Petitioners do humbly pray, that an Act may be gran|ted for making good the &s;aid Sale again&s;t the &s;aid Children, the better to &s;atisfie Purcha&s;ers. And in regard that the Sale of the &s;aid Mannor will not produce nor yeeld above Eight thou&s;and pounds, the whole debt being above Nineteen thou&s;and pounds: They the &s;aid Sir <HI>David Cuningham</HI> and the re&s;t of the Creditors do mo&s;t humbly pray, That an Act may be likewi&s;e granted for the re&s;t of the &s;aid Sir <HI>James Enyons</HI> entailed Lands (which is neer about twelve hundred pounds of yearly Rent) to be made &s;ubject and liable to the pay|ment of the re&s;t of his &s;aid ju&s;t debts, which is above Eleven thou&s;and pounds more: there being no heir-male, but only three daughters, who may have fair and competent Portions be&s;ides of Two thou&s;and five hundred pounds apeece at lea&s;t: and this the rather ought and may in all ju&s;tice and equity be granted; in re&s;pect that the &s;aid <HI>James Enyon</HI> to the &s;ame ef|fect, did in this la&s;t Parliament preferre a Petition and Bill in Parliament to cut off the intail, he having no i&s;&s;ue-male; And la&s;tly, That the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid entailed Lands may be ordered and &s;etled to your Petitioners, towards the &s;atisfaction and payment of their ju&s;t Debts: To all which effect your Petitioners did lately Petition the Committee appointed for hearing, relieving, and repre&s;enting to the State the grievances of the people, but no|thing being yet done, they are thus again con&s;trained to become Petitioners to your Ho|nours, mo&s;t humbly begging relief in the Premi&s;es,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>And they as in all duty bound &s;hall ever pray, <HI>&amp;c. D. Cuningham.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P>A true Note of the &s;aid <HI>James Enyon</HI> his Debts, with the Intere&s;t in arrear, and due the fir&s;t day of <HI>June,</HI> 1653.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>John Acton</HI> E&s;quire.&mdash;4200.</ITEM>
<ITEM>M^r <HI>William Combes</HI> and his A&s;&s;ignes.&mdash;2800.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Lock</HI> E&s;quire.&mdash;1700.</ITEM>
<ITEM>M^r <HI>Richard Cox.</HI>&mdash;1000.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Anne Moorhead</HI> Widow.&mdash;1780.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Heirs of <HI>Robers Je&s;&s;y.</HI>&mdash;1740.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lady <HI>Pools</HI> Children.&mdash;1600.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Palmer</HI> E&s;quire, lately called Sir <HI>Wil|liam Palmer</HI> and M^r <HI>Buckbury.</HI> 1540</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Benett</HI> E&s;quire, and others.&mdash;0900.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lady <HI>Harvey.</HI>&mdash;0470.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Henne</HI> E&s;quire, lately called Sir <HI>Henry Henne</HI> Knight and Baronet.&mdash;0460</ITEM>
<ITEM>M^r^s <HI>Andrews.</HI>&mdash;0480.</ITEM>
<ITEM>M^r <HI>Hawtry.</HI>&mdash;0360.</ITEM>
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<P>Summe of the &s;aid Debts 19030.</P>
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