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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE OF THE Mi&s;erable <HI>Orphans</HI> of the City of <HI>London,</HI> Pre|&s;ented to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Com|mons.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat there are about fourteen hundred <HI>Orphans,</HI> who&s;e Portions left them by their Parents, and paid into the Chamber of the City of <HI>London,</HI> according to the Cu&s;tom of the &s;aid City, for &s;ecurity of their Portions, which have for many years been de|tained from them that are of Age, and &s;ome out of their Appren|tice&s;hips, who for want of their Money to &s;et up their Trades, are reduced to &s;uch Nece&s;&s;ities, that it hath deprived &s;ome of them of their Sen&s;es, and others have kill'd them&s;elves, having nothing to &s;ub&s;i&s;t with; We having Received no more then Two-pence in the Pound from the Chamber for many years pa&s;t. Our Ne|ce&s;&s;ities are very great, the pre&s;ent Exigencies we are under are pa&s;t Expre&s;&s;ion, the Grief of which hath killed many, and others lye Sick and Want, and others are in daily expectation of being &s;ent to Goal for Debts, that have been Contracted for Nece&s;&s;aries to keep them from Starving.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e and many other Grievances (which for brevity are omitted) are with Submi&s;&s;ion humbly offered to your Compa&s;&s;ionate Con&s;iderations, this Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons being the only Redre&s;&s;ers of the Grievances of tho&s;e who&s;e Oppre&s;&s;ors are too mighty for them, humbly be&s;eeching your Honours, that you will be plea&s;ed to give us a &s;peedy Relief, thereby preventing the peri&s;hing of &s;ome hundreds of us, which will Inevitably be before another Se&s;&s;ions.</HI></P>
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