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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140317.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="G">816.m.17[60]</STC>
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<HEAD>The Deplorable CASE Of many Poor Widows and Ma&s;ters Concern'd in the <HI>IRISH Tran&s;port-Ships.</HI> Humbly Offered to the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS.</HEAD>
<P>IT is humbly pre&s;umed your Honours cannot but be &s;en&s;ible of the Zeal of the Ma&s;ters and Owners of Shiping, to Their Maje&s;ties and pre&s;ent Government, as appeared by their readine&s;s, when they Univer&s;ally, from all parts of <HI>England,</HI> entred them&s;elves into their Maje&s;ties Service, to Tran&s;port the Army, Ammunition, Provi&s;ion, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> for the Reducing of <HI>Ireland,</HI> on as rea&s;onable terms as any Merchant pays: The Per&s;ons herein con|cern'd, fitted and victualled their Ships, engaged them&s;elves and ve&s;&s;els for Seamens Wages, by which means very many Ships, for want of the Kings Pay, have been Seized, Condemned, and Sold, and, when all fell &s;hort of &s;atisfaction, for the Debts contracted to maintain this Service, the Per&s;ons of &s;everal of the Commanders have been Impri&s;oned, and there Peri&s;hed, and their Wives and Children left to the Pari&s;hes: Others have been <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">orced to fly their Countrey, having taken up Money upon Intre&s;t, to pay the debts contracted in this &s;ervice, and were not able to Pay the &s;ame. And many more People who before this &s;ervice lived in very good Reputation &amp; Credit, are almo&s;t reduced to Beggery.</P>
<P>There are in <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Southwarke</HI> a great many Widows and Fatherle&s;s Children, who lo&s;t their Husbands and Fathers in this Service; and many Ma&s;|ters and Owners who have lo&s;t their Ships and driven to the la&s;t extremities, being out of Imployment, who have in all humillity addre&s;&s;ed them&s;elves to their Maje&s;ties and to the Lords of the Trea&s;ury, but all the Relief they ever found, was only an Order from the Trea&s;ury for Six Months Intre&s;t in Tallies, upon &s;uch a remote Fund that to turn it into Mony, is nigh one third Lo&s;s.</P>
<P>They have likewi&s;e attended his Maje&s;ty, humbly Praying, That He would lay their Deplorable Ca&s;e before this Honourable Hou&s;e, not que&s;tioning but your Honours would Commi&s;&s;erate the &s;ame, in finding &s;ome way for their &s;peedy Relief, being often Tould that unle&s;s His Maje&s;ty Recommended it, this Honourable Hou&s;e could not Relieve Them.</P>
<P>It is therefore Humbly Hoped, That &s;ince His Maje&s;ty has &s;o Affectionately recommended them, in His mo&s;t Gracious Speech, to the care of this Ho|nourable Hou&s;e, That your Honours (upon a due Con&s;ideration of the Vollantarine&s;s of the People, the Goodne&s;s of the Service, and the De&s;tre&s;&s;|edne&s;s of their Ca&s;e) will find out &s;ome way for their relief, as in your great Wi&s;dom Shall &s;eem meet, without which many Families mu&s;t un|doubtedly be reduced to Begg or Starve.</P>
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