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<p n="6"> To the Right Reverend Father in God, Our<lb></lb>
Right Trusty and Welbeloved Counsellor,</p>
<p n="7">HENRY<lb></lb>
Lord Bishop of London</p>
<p n="8">ANNER<lb></lb>
Right Reverend Father in God, Our Right Trusty<lb></lb>
and Welbeloved Councellor, We greet you well:<lb></lb>
Taking notice of the Hardships and Distresses<lb></lb>
which the poorer sort of our Subjects in and about our<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15023_geo9">City of London</rs>
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do suffer; We have thought fit, for their<lb></lb>
Relief and Support, heartily to recommend unto you: And<lb></lb>
We do hereby expresly require you to take care for Pub-<lb></lb>
lication to be made in all the Parish Churches, within our<lb></lb>
said City and Liberties thereof, the Lords-day next fol-<lb></lb>
lowing the date of these Presents, that the Church-Ward-<lb></lb>
ens or Overseers of the Poor, do, the Week following, Col-<lb></lb>
lect the Benevolence of Charitable and Weldisposed People,<lb></lb>
at their respective Dwellings within each Parish, for and<lb></lb>
towards the Support and Relief of our said poor Subjects:<lb></lb>
And that the Ministers in each Parish do effectually excite<lb></lb>
their Parishioners to a Charitable Contribution, and cause<lb></lb>
the several Sums to Collected to be Paid immediately into the<lb></lb>
Chamber of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15023_geo10">London</rs>
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, to be distributed to the several Pa-<lb></lb>
rishes as the Lord Mayor of our said City, and you shall<lb></lb>
think fit and direct. And that our Example may not be<lb></lb>
wanting; our further Pleasure is, that you call upon our<lb></lb>
High Treasurer of Great-Britain, for such Sum of Money<lb></lb>
as we have directed and appointed to be paid to that end,<lb></lb>
and dispose the same as aforesaid, and to we bid you hear-<lb></lb>
tily farewel. Given at our Court at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15023_geo11">St. James's</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15023_date4">Four-<lb></lb>
teenth Day of January, 1711</rs>
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. in the Tenth Year of our<lb></lb>
Reign.</p>
<p n="9">By Her Majesty's Command,<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15023_geo12">Dartmouth</rs>
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