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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE OF Many Inhabitants of the Town of <HI>DEPTFORD,</HI> in the County of <HI>Kent;</HI> many of which are Inn|holders and Victuallers,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Honourable the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons</HI> in Parliament A&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the &s;aid Inhabitants did, at the latter End of the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions of Parliament, deliver their Ca&s;e to this Honourable Hou&s;e; which was as followeth:</P>
<P><HI>That the &s;aid Inhabitants from time to time, as often as occa&s;ion hath been, entertained Sick and Wounded Seamen, &s;ent on Shoar from His Maje&s;ty's Ships, during all the time of the late War, and have furni&s;hed them with Meat, Drink, Washing, Lodging, and all other Nece&s;&s;aries for their Sub|&s;i&s;tance.</HI></P>
<P><HI>That the &s;aid Inhabitants, by &s;uch Sub&s;i&s;tance, have run them&s;elves into very many and great Debts with their Brewers, Bakers, Butchers, and other Trade&s;men, for Three or Four Years together.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;ince the delivery of the above&s;aid Ca&s;e, the New Com|mi&s;&s;ioners for that Office have di&s;charged the Debts for the Sick and Wounded Men at all the Ports of this Kingdom, from the Fir&s;t of <HI>July</HI> 1698, to the Thirtieth of <HI>September</HI> 1699. And though the former Commi&s;&s;ioners have often been &s;ollicited on that Account, being in Arrears to this, as al&s;o to mo&s;t, if not all the Ports of the Kingdom, from the Year 1695, to the La&s;t of <HI>June</HI> 1698; yet nothing hath nor can be obtained of them, They alledging they have not any Money to di&s;charge the &s;ame, which occa&s;ions the Creditors of the &s;aid Inhabitants to act with greater Severity to|wards them.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Inhabitants are become &s;o very Poor, by having entertained Seamen upon His Maje&s;ty's Account, (having mort|gag'd and made away all that they had) that they and their Fami|lies, mu&s;t unavoidably peri&s;h, if not timely relieved, &s;everal of them having been Arre&s;ted by their &s;aid Creditors, and Others with|drawn from their Habitations, to the utter Ruin of their Families.</P>
<P><HI>Wherefore the &s;aid Inhabitants mo&s;t Humbly beg, That this Honourable Hou&s;e would be plea&s;ed to take their mo&s;t mi&s;erable and deplorable Condition into Your &s;erious Con&s;iderations; and to grant them &s;uch Relief therein as Your Honours &s;hall think convenient; that there|by they may regain their former Credit, and be enabled &s;till to &s;upply the &s;aid Sick and Wounded Seamen for His Maje&s;ty's Service.</HI></P>
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