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<p n="408">To the Right Honble Sr <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n408-1">William Humfreys</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15026_occ126">Knight</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15026_occ127">Bart</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15026_occ128">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo205">City of London</rs>
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and to the Right Worshipfull<lb></lb>
the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15026_occ129">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the same City Assembled at the<lb></lb>
Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the said<lb></lb>
City at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo206">Guildhall</rs>
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thereof</p>
<p n="409"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
The humble Peticon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-1">Thomas Flower</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-3">Thomas Sherly</rs>
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John<lb></lb>
Ricqueburg Francis Dutton Wm <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-4">Francis Edmond</rs>
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Morgan Valentine Harding<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-5">Matthew Sharpe</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-6">Joseph King</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-7">Anne Bond</rs>
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Elizabeth Gigg Daniell Ellwell John<lb></lb>
& zer John Gumby <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-8">Joseph Whitchurch</rs>
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Anne Forestreet <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-9">William Cotterell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-10">Thomas<lb></lb>
Cock</rs>
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John Edmond's <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-11">Thomas West</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-12">Henry Luff</rs>
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Anne Semper <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-13">John Roper</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Charles Tracey <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-14">John Holland</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-15">William Moseley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-16">William Rogers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-17">John Willis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-18">William Robinson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-19">Elizabeth Newton</rs>
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Hugh Boseley Andrews <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-20">Isaac Hill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-21">Mary<lb></lb>
Thomas</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-22">Mary Terry</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-23">Mary Knight</rs>
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Rebecca Johes <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-24">Richard Pooley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-25">John White</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-26">Richard Wilson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-27">Darcas Porter</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15026_occ130">Widdow</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-28">Anthony Leonard</rs>
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James Wyke<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-29">William Henshaw</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-30">Benjamin Beard</rs>
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Jonathn: Butter <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n409-31">John Carver</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and diverse widdows Orphan's and others whose husbands and Fathers<lb></lb>
were Killed and Maimed in the late Fire which happened in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo207">Thames Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo208">Tower Street</rs>
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and other parts in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo209">parish of St. Dunstan</rs>
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in the East</p>
<p n="410"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That on the thirteenth of January last there happened a Suddain and Terrible Fire<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo210">Thames Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo211">Tower Street</rs>
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and other parts in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo212">parish of St Dunstan in the East</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo213">City of London</rs>
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which in three days time burnt downe and Consumed upwards of fifty<lb></lb>
Dwelling houses besides a great number of Warehouses and vaults full of Merchandizes<lb></lb>
amongst wch were many houses and effects of your Peter whose effects and Substances were<lb></lb>
utterly Consumed and distroyed thereby their whole loss amounting unto the sume of</p>
<p n="411"> <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
And by this said Calamity yor Peter who before lived<lb></lb>
in a Reputable manner are now reduced to extreame want and poverty That your Petrs &<lb></lb>
Familyes have hither to been preserved from starveing by private Charityes.</p>
<p n="412">Yor Petrs therefore most humbly pray yor Worshipps<lb></lb>
the prmisses Considered to Certifie the same to the Right<lb></lb>
Honble the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15026_occ131">Lord high Chancellor</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15026_occ131" type="occupation" value="Lord high Chancellor"></interp>
of Great Britaine to the<lb></lb>
end your Peticoners may obtaine his Maties most gracious<lb></lb>
Letters Patents by was of Breife for a Colleccon of the<lb></lb>
Charity of his Maties Loveing Subjects for the Releife<lb></lb>
of your Peter and their Familyes in this their great Distress<lb></lb>
and Deplorable Condicon</p>
<p n="413">And yor Peticoners as in duty bound shall ever pray Etc</p>
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