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To the Right Reverend Father in God, Our
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Right Trusty and Welbeloved Counsellor,
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HENRY
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Lord Bishop of London.
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ANNER.
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RIght Reverend Father in God, Our Right Trusty
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and Welbeloved Councellor, We greet you well:
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Taking notice of the Hardships and Distresses
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which the poorer sort of our Subjects in and about our
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do suffer; We have thought fit, for their
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Relief and Support, heartily to recommend unto you: And
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We do hereby expresly require you to take care for Pub-
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lication to be made in all the Parish Churches, within our
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said City and Liberties thereof, the Lords-day next fol-
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lowing the date of these Presents, that the Church-Ward-
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ens or Overseers of the Poor, do, the Week following, Col-
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lect the Benvolence of Charitable and Weldisposed People,
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at their respective Dwellings within each Parish, for and
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towards the Support and Relief of our said poor Subjects:
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And that the Ministers in each Parish do effectually excite
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their Parishioners to a Charitable Contribution, and cause
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the several Sums to Collected to be Paid immediately into the
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Chamber of
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, to be distributed to the several Pa-
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rishes as the Lord Mayor of our said City, and you shall
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think fit and direct. And that our Example may not be
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wanting; our further Pleasure is, that you call upon our
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High Treasurer of Great-Britain, for such Sum of Money
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as we have directed and appointed to be paid to that end,
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and dispose the same as aforesaid, and to we bid you hear-
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tily farewel. Given at our Court at
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St. James's
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teenth Day of January, 1711
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. in the Tenth Year of our
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Reign.
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By Her Majesty's Command,
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