To the right honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of many poor distressed sea-mens wives, and widows. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06149 of text R187513 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1681A). 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 B06149 Wing T1681A ESTC R187513 52612453 ocm 52612453 179673 2248534369

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06149) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179673) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2796:11) To the right honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of many poor distressed sea-mens wives, and widows. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1668] Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng England and Wales. -- Royal Navy -- Pay, allowances, etc. -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons, assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of many poor distressed sea-mens wives, and widows. [no entry] 1668 1 282 2 0 0 0 0 0 70.92 D The rate of 70.92 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons , Assembled in Parliament . The Humble Petition of many Poor Distressed Sea-mens Wives , and Widows . Most Humbly Sheweth ,

THat whereas there being Arrears of Wages due to your poor Petitioners , for Service done in his MAJESTIES Ships , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Year ( 1658. ) the want thereof , hath exposed your Petitioners , together with their Families , to great Wants and Miseries ; and so weakned their Credits with poor Tradesmen ; namely , Chandlers , Bakers , Butchers , and the like , that usually Credit them with Provisions of Victuals in the absence of their Husbands ; that your poor Petitioners with their Families are in danger of perishing , and are in great want , and are daily imprisoned ; and others for non-payment of their Rent , turned out of their Habitations , with their Wives and Families .

In tender Consideration of the Premisses , May it gracious ; ly please these Honourable Houses of Peers and Commons , now in the High Court of Parliament Assembled , to take the Premisses into your Serious and Pious Considerations , and to take such Order for satisfying their Arrears of Wages , that so your Poor Petitioners may thereby be enabled to satisfie those poor Tradesmen that have intrusted them with Food : And for the Future to keep them and their poor Families from Starving , and Perishing : All which we humbly beg , and wholly refer to your Honours Grave Wisdoms , and Pious Considerations .

And we , as in Duty bound , shall ever pray , &c.