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<DATE>2008-02-05</DATE>
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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080145.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="W">T1681A</STC>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons,</HI> A&s;&s;embled in <HI>Parliament.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>The Humble Petition of many Poor Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Sea-mens Wives, and Widows.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Humbly Sheweth,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THat whereas there being Arrears of Wages due to your poor Petitioners, for Service done in his MAJESTIES Ships, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ words"> the Year (1658.) the want thereof, hath expo&s;ed your Petitioners, together with their Families, to great Wants and Mi&s;eries; and &s;o weakned their Credits with poor Trade&s;|men; namely, Chandlers, Bakers, Butchers, and the like, that u&s;ually Credit them with Provi&s;ions of Victuals in the ab|&s;ence of their Husbands; that your poor Petitioners with their Families are in danger of peri&s;hing, and are in great want, and are daily impri&s;oned; and others for non-payment of their Rent, turned out of their Habitations, with their Wives and Families.</P>
<P><HI>In tender Con&s;ideration of the Premi&s;&s;es, May it gracious;ly plea&s;e the&s;e Honourable Hou&s;es of Peers and Commons, now in the High Court of Parliament A&s;&s;embled, to take the Premi&s;&s;es in|to your Serious and Pious Con&s;iderations, and to take &s;uch Or|der for &s;atisfying their Arrears of Wages, that &s;o your Poor Petitioners may thereby be enabled to &s;atisfie tho&s;e poor Trade&s;|men that have intru&s;ted them with Food: And for the Fu|ture to keep them and their poor Families from Starving, and Peri&s;hing: All which we humbly beg, and wholly refer to your Honours Grave Wi&s;doms, and Pious Con&s;iderations.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>And we, as in Duty bound, &s;hall ever pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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