The deplorable case of many poor widows and masters concern'd in the Irish transport-ships. Humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B21175 of text R225260 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 3KB 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 B21175 Wing D1069 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.17[60] ESTC R225260 ESTC R232450 ESTC R225260 ocm99885986

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 eng Great Britain. -- Army -- Organization -- Early works to 1800. Ireland -- History -- War of 1689-1691 -- Early works to 1800. eebo The deplorable case of many poor widows and masters concern'd in the Irish transport-ships. : Humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons n/a 1692 1 493 1 0 0 0 0 0 20.28 C The rate of 20.28 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-05 Sampled and proofread 2014-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Deplorable CASE Of many Poor Widows and Masters Concern'd in the IRISH Transport-Ships . Humbly Offered to the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS .

IT is humbly presumed your Honours cannot but be sensible of the Zeal of the Masters and Owners of Shiping , to Their Majesties and present Government , as appeared by their readiness , when they Universally , from all parts of England , entred themselves into their Majesties Service , to Transport the Army , Ammunition , Provision , &c. for the Reducing of Ireland , on as reasonable terms as any Merchant pays : The Persons herein concern'd , fitted and victualled their Ships , engaged themselves and vessels for Seamens Wages , by which means very many Ships , for want of the Kings Pay , have been Seized , Condemned , and Sold , and , when all fell short of satisfaction , for the Debts contracted to maintain this Service , the Persons of several of the Commanders have been Imprisoned , and there Perished , and their Wives and Children left to the Parishes : Others have been ●orced to fly their Countrey , having taken up Money upon Intrest , to pay the debts contracted in this service , and were not able to Pay the same . And many more People who before this service lived in very good Reputation & Credit , are almost reduced to Beggery .

There are in London and Southwarke a great many Widows and Fatherless Children , who lost their Husbands and Fathers in this Service ; and many Masters and Owners who have lost their Ships and driven to the last extremities , being out of Imployment , who have in all humillity addressed themselves to their Majesties and to the Lords of the Treasury , but all the Relief they ever found , was only an Order from the Treasury for Six Months Intrest in Tallies , upon such a remote Fund that to turn it into Mony , is nigh one third Loss .

They have likewise attended his Majesty , humbly Praying , That He would lay their Deplorable Case before this Honourable House , not questioning but your Honours would Commisserate the same , in finding some way for their speedy Relief , being often Tould that unless His Majesty Recommended it , this Honourable House could not Relieve Them .

It is therefore Humbly Hoped , That since His Majesty has so Affectionately recommended them , in His most Gracious Speech , to the care of this Honourable House , That your Honours ( upon a due Consideration of the Vollantariness of the People , the Goodness of the Service , and the Destressedness of their Case ) will find out some way for their relief , as in your great Wisdom Shall seem meet , without which many Families must undoubtedly be reduced to Begg or Starve .