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<HEAD><HI>The Per&s;onal Sufferings in the Siege of</HI> London-Derry, <HI>being but generally touch'd in the</HI> Petition <HI>and</HI> Ca&s;e, <HI>it may not be unfit to take &s;ome further View thereof in the Heads that here follow.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">I. THERE was, in the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> place, in that City, a huge multitude of all &s;orts, Men, Women, and Children, many of them driven or fled in thither, from all parts, for fear of the Enemy, who having Lo&s;t or Abandon'd, or been Robb'd of all they had, though they formerly lived well, had nothing left to Sub&s;i&s;t on, nor any where to Lodge, but were forc'd to &s;eek to others (in Di&s;tre&s;s al&s;o them&s;elves) and to depend on their Benevolence and Charity.</P>
<P N="2">II. WHEN the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Army drew near to Inve&s;t the City, all the chief Officers, and Men of Experience in Martial Affairs, went away, and for&s;ook them, and many more with them for <HI>England,</HI> or el&s;e-where; and all the Forces &s;ent over at that time with Collonel <HI>Cunningham</HI> and <HI>Richards</HI> for their Relief, return'd &s;uddenly from thence without Landing, back again to <HI>England,</HI> all looking on the Ca&s;e of that poor City, and the People therein, as altogether De&s;perate and Hopele&s;s.</P>
<P N="3">III. WHEN &s;o many Thou&s;ands of People, who lived before in great Plenty, (being there crowded and pent up together within tho&s;e Walls) were in a little time Re|duc'd to that <HI>Mi&s;erable Want</HI> as to Eat the Vile&s;t of Food, Dogs, Cats, Rats, Hor&s;es, Tal|low, Tann'd Hides, Starch, and the like, and many Peri&s;hed for lack even of that Mi&s;e|rable Su&s;tenance, that could no wi&s;e obtain it.</P>
<P N="4">IV. WHEN at the &s;ame time they were Torne a&s;under, and De&s;troyed in every part of the City by the Enemies Bombs and Cannon, Death met them at every Corner, and in their Clo&s;ets and Bed-Chambers, they could be no where Secure: Even Water it &s;elf could not be had to many without Hazard of Life.</P>
<P N="5">V. WHEN at the &s;ame time they were &s;wept away daily, in great Numbers, by a malignant Feaver, that then Raged among them, occa&s;ion'd from the Ba&s;e Food, and Ill Lodging, want of Re&s;t, the Noi&s;ome Stench and Di&s;mal Sights, Noi&s;e of Cannon and Cries of the Sick and Wounded, continual fear of Death or of Famine, or falling into their Enemies hands, the daily Lo&s;s of their neare&s;t Relations and Friends before their eyes, whom they were not able to help, nor women to &s;upport their poor infants; and other Mi&s;eries they were under that cannot be expre&s;s'd, that they Died &s;o fa&s;t, at length, as there could &s;carce be found room to Interr them, even the Back-&s;ides and Gardens were fill'd up with Graves, and &s;ome thrown in Cellars; &s;ome whole Families were in|tirely Extinct, and others from many, brought to a very few, and tho&s;e in a very Mi&s;era|ble Condition.</P>
<P N="6">VI. WHEN at the &s;ame time, to the great Grief and A&s;toni&s;hment of tho&s;e poor People, they beheld the Supplies and Forces &s;ent over from <HI>England</HI> under, the Command of Major-General <HI>Kirke,</HI> for their Relief, lye looking on in their Ships for about Six Weeks together, without ever attempting in the lea&s;t to Relieve them, though they made all the Signals they could of their being Reduc'd to the very la&s;t Extremity, as they truly were at that time, which was greatly Di&s;couraging, and try'd their Patience extreamly.</P>
<P N="7">VII. WHEN at the &s;ame time they were daily offered, by the late King or his Chief Officers there, &s;uch Terms and Conditions to Surrender the City, as it could not be thought they would ever have Refus'd; which, notwith&s;tanding all the Mi&s;eries they endur'd, and great Danger they were in, and no appearance of Aid, they Rejected to the la&s;t; the Cau&s;e they Suffer'd for, and great Encouragements they receiv'd from the Proceedings of the <HI>Parliament</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> and the Fatal Con&s;equences like to en&s;ue to the&s;e Kingdoms, if they gave up the Place, prevailing with them above all Temptations whatever. When after near Four Months Sufferings in that Mi&s;erable Condition, it plea&s;ed GOD at length to Deliver them, when the Enemy broke up their Siege. But the Be&s;ieged had then nothing left to Return to, or Sub&s;i&s;t on. And have, many of them, had but a Sorrowful Time ever &s;ince, and if not now Reliev'd, mu&s;t De&s;pair thereof till they Die.</P>
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