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