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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>A MEMORIAL FOR THE Poor French Refugees&punc;</HEAD>
<P>WE the Poor <HI>French</HI> Mini&s;ters, Gentlemen and others, di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Refugees</HI> now in <HI>England,</HI> with the deepe&s;t and fulle&s;t &s;en&s;e of Gratitude, in the fir&s;t place return to Your Honours our humble and ju&s;t Acknow|ledgement, for Your mo&s;t Chri&s;tian and Charitable Con&s;idera|tion of us the la&s;t Year, by which opportune Relief we have been pre&s;erv'd from Peri&s;hing under tho&s;e many Mi|&s;eries which then oppre&s;&s;ed us.</P>
<P>Nor is it po&s;&s;ible for us ever to forget the great Obligations this Generous and Charitable Hou&s;e as laid us under, in &s;o Kindly receiving, and &s;o Charitably Relieving us hitherto.</P>
<P>'Tis this that fills us with the utmo&s;t Confu&s;ion, in &s;till pre&s;uming to trouble Your Honours; but being incouraged by Your Honours experienced Commi&s;eration, and forcibly pre&s;&s;ed by our crying Nece&s;&s;ities, we humbly crave leave to implore the continuance of Your Honours Charitable Pro|vi&s;ion for us, without which Your former Goodne&s;s will prove ineffectual, and we your di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Suppliants, with our poor Families, mu&s;t be inevitably expo&s;ed to the utmo&s;t ruine and de&s;truction.</P>
<P>Therefore they humbly crave leave again to repre&s;ent to this Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, that although Your Honours intention was to grant unto the poor <HI>French Refugees</HI> for their relief the la&s;t Year 15000 <HI>l.</HI> The &s;aid <HI>Refugees</HI> having been Pay'd in Tallies, upon which they did lo&s;e a great deal, they have received but about one half of it. So they are in hope Your Honours this Year will be plea&s;ed to take into your Con&s;ideration their great Lo&s;e, and to grant unto this poor People, to re&s;cue them from their ur|gent Mi&s;ery, the Sum of 20000 <HI>l.</HI> without which they are in danger to be brought into Pri&s;on, and there to Starve and Peri&s;h mi&s;erably.</P>
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