The case of the miserable orphans of the city of London, presented to the honourable House of Commons. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B01917 of text R205825 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C1117). 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. 2 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 2018 B01917 Wing C1117 ESTC R205825 52211960 ocm 52211960 175529 2248539737

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B01917) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175529) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2739:39) The case of the miserable orphans of the city of London, presented to the honourable House of Commons. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1692] Caption title. Publication data suggested by Wing. Reproduction of the original in the Lincoln's Inn Library. eng Orphans -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. Poor laws -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The case of the miserable orphans of the City of London, presented to the Honourable House of Commons. [no entry] 1692 1 281 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. 2008-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE CASE OF THE Miserable Orphans of the City of London , Presented to the Honourable House of Commons . Humbly Sheweth ,

THat there are about fourteen hundred Orphans , whose Portions left them by their Parents , and paid into the Chamber of the City of London , according to the Custom of the said City , for security of their Portions , which have for many years been detained from them that are of Age , and some out of their Apprenticeships , who for want of their Money to set up their Trades , are reduced to such Necessities , that it hath deprived some of them of their Senses , and others have kill'd themselves , having nothing to subsist with ; We having Received no more then Two-pence in the Pound from the Chamber for many years past . Our Necessities are very great , the present Exigencies we are under are past Expression , the Grief of which hath killed many , and others lye Sick and Want , and others are in daily expectation of being sent to Goal for Debts , that have been Contracted for Necessaries to keep them from Starving .

These and many other Grievances ( which for brevity are omitted ) are with Submission humbly offered to your Compassionate Considerations , this Honourable House of Commons being the only Redressers of the Grievances of those whose Oppressors are too mighty for them , humbly beseeching your Honours , that you will be pleased to give us a speedy Relief , thereby preventing the perishing of some hundreds of us , which will Inevitably be before another Sessions .