To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of Anne Henshaw widow, late wife and executrix of Benajamin Henshaw Esquire deceased, on the behalf of herself and her seven children. Henshaw, Ann. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A86210 of text R212131 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[49]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A86210 Wing H1477 Thomason 669.f.19[49] ESTC R212131 99870778 99870778 163386 2248521520

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A86210) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163386) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[49]) To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of Anne Henshaw widow, late wife and executrix of Benajamin Henshaw Esquire deceased, on the behalf of herself and her seven children. Henshaw, Ann. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1654] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb. 1654". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Henshaw, Ann -- Early works to 1800. Collecting of accounts -- England -- Early works to 1800. Decedents' family maintenance -- England -- Early works to 1800. A86210 R212131 (Thomason 669.f.19[49]). civilwar no To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of Anne Henshaw widow, late wife and executrix Henshaw, Ann. 1654 1 511 1 0 0 0 0 0 20 C The rate of 20 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of England , Scotland , and Ireland . The Humble Petition of Anne Henshaw Widow , late Wife and Executrix of Benjamin Henshaw Esquire deceased , on the behalf of her self and her seven children . In most humble manner sheweth ,

THat your Petitioner was left the distressed Widow of her said husband , having the sole care of 8 children left to her to be provided for , out of certain debts due to her said husband ; the chief of which was owing by the late Earl of Carlisle , which she could no way get assured , unless she could procure 4000l . more , which she did raise , by getting together her childrens portions secured in the Chamber of London , and by the credit of her friends , and engaging of her whole estate , by which means the debt was made 12000l . And an assignment legally passed to your Petitioner from the said Earl of 2000l . per an: ( til the said debt of 12000l . should be fully satisfied ) out of an Annuity of 3000l . per an: granted upon valuable considerations to the said Earl by the late King , out of the old and other Customes ; The which Annuity was received untill 4000l . of the said 12000l . was paid and no more : And then in the year 1641. the House of Commons alone took all the said Customes into their own disposall , and ever since that time have imployed them wholly for supply of the publick necessities , though the Order it self exempts the old Custome● , out of which your Petitioner was to be paid , and which were legally vested in the Crown , and by due course of Law passed and confirmed to your Petitioner ; And by reason of which diversion and occasion of the late troubles , she hath lost above 20000l . in good debts , which are now desperate and irrecoverable , whereby she and her children are reduced to a very mean condition .

The Petitioner therefore most humbly prayeth , that the said debt of 8000l . which is JUSTLY DUE unto her , and interest for the same , ever since the year 1641. may be allowed for the relief of her and her children ; And that your Honours will be pleased to give Order that she may receive the same out of the said old Customes , according to the former assignment made to her , and which are chargeable therewith by LAW , being continued by the Book of Rates agreed by the Commons in Parliament , Anno Dom. 1642. otherwise your Petitioner and her children who have never been Delinquents in the least degree , must inevitably be ruined , unlesse it shall please the Lord to stir up your hearts to commiserate the sad condition of her and her 7 children .

And they shall pray , &c.