To the Parliament of the Common wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of Margare [sic] Countesse of Worcester.

To the Parliament of the Common wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of Margare [sic] Countesse of Worcester. Worcester, Margaret Somerset, Countess of, d. 1681. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A96911 of text R212140 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[27]). 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. 1 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 A96911 Wing W3537 Thomason 669.f.19[27] ESTC R212140 99870787 99870787 163365 2240955025

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A96911) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163365) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[27]) To the Parliament of the Common wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of Margare [sic] Countesse of Worcester. Worcester, Margaret Somerset, Countess of, d. 1681. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1654] Imprint from Wing. For an allowance out of the confiscated estate. Annotation on Thomason copy: "October 1654". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Confiscations -- England -- Early works to 1800. Decedents' family maintenance -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A96911 R212140 (Thomason 669.f.19[27]). civilwar no To the Parliament of the Common wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of Margare [sic] Countesse of Worcester. Worcester, Margaret Somerset, Countess of 1654 1 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Pip Willcox Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Pip Willcox Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

To the Parliament of the Common wealth of England , Scotland , and Ireland . The humble Petition of Margare Countesse of Worcester . Sheweth ,

THat your Petioner having been married to Edward now Earl of Worcester in the yeare 1639. with a considerable portion , to the value of Twenty Thousand pounds , and not having received out of the whole Estate , but four hundred pounds , these nine yeares , in Lieu of Jointur , Fifts or Thirds . Notwithstanding her claime and four years attendance : and finding now only Worcester house unsold and in oursuit to discover some other little thing .

Your petitioner humbly prayeth your Honours to grant her the benefit of the said House , and such other things as may be discouered .

And your petitioner shall ever pray . &c.