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Part 1, Folio 71. From E [Elizabeth] Bourk. To [? Charles Delafaye]. 'Sir, I beg...

Catalogue reference: SP 35/57/29

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Date
1725 July 13
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Part 1, Folio 71. From E [Elizabeth] Bourk. To [? Charles Delafaye].

'Sir, I beg your pardon for this trouble which I would not have done but my necessity and illness has confined me to my bed or I would have waited on you myself to have begged you favour and goodness and charity to assist a widow in getting my petition answered. I hope my Lord Lincoln will be as good as his word in his kind assistance herein for his Lordship knows my circumstance is but in a mean condition, my great age and illness will not let me stir abroad and I hope their Excellencies will think my case hard, to lose my right for want of getting sight of my father's settlement and as it stands now I am in no way able to go to law so that I shall be content with a pension, or some money, to help me to subsist the short time I have to live. Once again Sir I beg your favour to a widow, who will ever acknowledge it whilst there is breath in [her] Your unknown friend E Bourk'.

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