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<DATE>2008-10-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To his Grace, His Maje&s;ties high Commi&s;sioner, and the Right Ho|nourable the E&s;tates of Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of Sir <HI>William Campbell.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>That your petitioner hath walked the&s;e many years betwixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> living upon Charity, as is well known to His Maje&s;ties se|cretary, and many others of this Honourable A&s;&s;embly: And having now in his old age, not being able to Travel any more, taken him&s;elf to a Married Life, of purpo&s;e to get re&s;t in his old Age: But by providence being redacted to Poverty, hath nothing to maintain Him&s;elf and his Wife, he hath row Married, being a poor Widow, the Relict of a Presbyterian Mini&s;ter at <HI>Dor|nock.</HI></P>
<P>It is therefore humbly craved your Grace, and E&s;tates of Parliament, would out of Pity and Compa&s;&s;ion, &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider an old Gentlemans condition, who never prejudged neither Church nor State, but kept him&s;elf as a Chri&s;tian, tho' &s;urprized by his Oppo&s;ers; and in the la&s;t Government inno|cently put in Pri&s;on, and a Goad of Iron put upon his Legs, which is well known to many, and was called a Cheat and a Rogue, which he re&s;ented; and as many knows he was inno|cent: and allow him an yearly allowance during his life, for his maintainance. And this is the reque&s;t of him, that will pray God to pro&s;per His Maje&s;ty, and all His Forces by Sea and Land. God ble&s;s the <HI>Honourable</HI> Parliament, and grant you may do nothing, but what may tend to GOD'S glory, and the Nations good: And your An&s;wer.</P>
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<Q><L>If my reque&s;t you do not grant,</L>
<L>Your Money mu&s;t be very &s;cant:</L>
<L>For as I live, I nothing crave</L>
<L>But Charity, which I mu&s;t have</L>
<L>For to &s;upplie my pre&s;ent need,</L>
<L>Which I pray God you'l do with &s;peed.</L>
<L>God ble&s;s you all, both great and &s;mall,</L>
<L>And &s;o farewell onto you all.</L></Q>
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<CLOSER>AMEN.</CLOSER>
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