To Our Right Trusty, and Welbeloved
Sir ROBERT BEACHCROFT< no role > , Kt .
Lord Mayor of our City of London .

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Right Trusty and Welbeloved, We greet you well.
Taking Notice of the Hardships and Distresses,
which the poorer sort of our Subjects, in and
about the City of London do suffer: We have thought fit,
for their Relief and Support in this condition, to Signify
our Pleasure to the Right Reverend Father in God, Henry,
Lord Bishop of London , that he take care for Publication
to be made in all the Parish Churches within our said City
and Liberties thereof, the Lords-day next following, for
the Church-Wardens or Overseers of the Poor of each Pa-
rish, to Collect the Benevolence of Charitable and Wel-
disposed People, at their respective Dwellings within each
Parish, for and towards the Support and Relief of our
said poor Subjects, and to cause the Money to Collected
to be paid immediately into the Chamber of London , to
be distributed to the several Parishes, as you and the said
Lord Bishop shall think fit and direct. 'And to the end
our Intention may be more effectual; We have thought
fit to recommend the same to you, that by your Encou-
ragement and Endeavours, our good Subjects inhabiting in
our said City and Liberties, may be induced to a more than
ordinary Compassion and Liberality on this occasion: And
so we bid you heartily farewel. Given at our Court at St.
James's the Fourteenth Day of January, 1711 , in the Tenth
Year of Our Reign.

By Her Majesty's Command,
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