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A81306
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The case of your hmmble [sic] petitioner, Anne Dennis
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Dennis, Anne.
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1699
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Wing D1027A; ESTC R231387
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The CASE of your Hmmble Petitioner Anne Dennis YEt as a free born Subject of England claim the Privilidge of being heard and having my Petition presented and as the Daughter of a Magestrate humbly hope all in this House being so Peculierly Chosen by therefore in behalf of the People will also have that Respect to Children of the Magestracy who have a place in this Honorable House and not being Plac'd with the Commonalty in their Fathers life time will also Mantain them in their Right and Privilige of Birth therefore allow my just Complaint and answer me to my Content That my Father Alderman Thomas Dennis was Mayor of the City of Oxford in the year 1643 who with a Loyal and true heart served his Majesty King Charles the first in the Publick and also furnished with some Cloathing for his own Royal Person as Velvet Cloath Silk Gold silver lace c and his Highness Prince Charles and Royall Duke of York all the time of their Residence in Oxford who as Heir Presumptive and King in the Throne in 86 when I Petition'd Conscience and Honer oblige paments of to prove which Debt appear an account stated by his Majestes order as by Reference on the Petition to the Lord Treasurer appears who caused an Auditor to state the same in March 46 who certifies that there was then owing 1900 which mean use comes to 6000 my Just due that he was under sequestration by order of both Houses of Parliament in 46 so that by charges losses sustain by Crediting the Court he was utterly Ruind that your Petitioners Father in conscience is not indebted since the Year 1666 or supposing he were Honour and pity would have prefer'd my interest and bestowd a favour upon me that have lost a fortune of 10000 by the Court That the abovesaid Premices disabled my Father from making any other Provision for my Portion so livelyhood which acation my so lawfull Solicitiog at Court for hope a Fathers Estate will never be to old for a Child to mannage nor that a child should be put of from what a Father is able to Leave for not being in the Grand Seignors dominions who when the Bashaw dyes takes all gives the Child what he thinks fit but in a Christian Countrey so Civilised Court as should be tho far from as I may say whose Honour should not return it as almesgivers but apear as Guardian to the Child so left by the Parent who hath served the King and with the Childs Portion Tho it is rather a Heathenish Custom also then fitting an English Court that Petitions shall not be ansewerd if to none but acquaintance Kindred or servants then where is the doing of Justice which ought to be indifferantly ad-Ministred to all not regarding acquaintance else how should Loyal Citizens or persons remote be paid Debts that have no Interest with Lords and if by any Accident or tedious Court waiting the persons consern'd are dead the hands of such as receiv'd the money or wares and those that state Debts should be sufficent testimony else why 〈◊〉 hands put to sign any thing to attest the truth if of no Validity That your Petitioner Soliciting at Treasury in pursuance of her abovesaid Portion has been disgrac'd this 〈◊〉 last Years beyond all president and ranked in disgrace to the Magistracy as the meanest of Persons defam'd in words and when I complained all the Redress was to bid me fly from it which I despise as an Innocent and go home to my own Country therefore I make my Application to the Honourable House of Commons to constler my Grievances and pay this Debt of the Crown to me For I have not been quietly permitted to prefent a Petition to King William and when I have had no Redress and often thrust out by the Yeomen for a Mad-body on the 17th of June last our of the House on the Lords Day that I was forced to give my Petition on the High-way in the Coach nor suffer to attend but contrary to all common Civility or Morality Honour from the Court or Conscience to me cause their Door-keepers to afâ—ront me daily and using such Speeches that surely Sodom and Gomorrah would come short of and 6 times imprisoned dragg'd through the two Courts in VVhite-Hall from the Treasury by Mr. John Taylor 's Order the 30th of July 98 coming from the Chappel but that respect I wil show to Children of Mahistrates if pulled in pieces not to go to a Prison appointed for Porters and Foot-men if that be a place for a Magistrate's Daughter and civil Maiden indebted to none about her business or coming from Church let all vindicate or intail that disgrace upon their Posterity but I was provoked to swear I would not eat till I had satisfaction as had not in 2 Years only Bread and since on the 30th of June last was halled from the Treasury in the Name of the Bishop of Canterbury also as on the 30th of July to my disgrace and so great hurt but had they gone a little father I had sounded and to spit in my Face endeavoured to break my Arms tear my Head-cloths fling me about to dash my Head to the Wall is sport c. that I go in danger of my Life All upon the Account of a private Person the abovesaid Mr. Taylor Clark and the Treasury but the Lords appearing against me in countenancing so causing Affronts to spoil my Marriage which true Honour and Piety would have promoted considered my Father's Services but I was denied the Freedom of an Irishwoman Peâ—sioner whose pretensions could not stand in competition with mine nor would Conscience put me off in that rude manoer without payment to my utter Ruine and it is as lawful and proper for a Maiden to go a woing as to do any other business abroad that have neither Fathers or Brothers to do it for them And I have a priviledge which I must stand upon my Honour as a Maiden which no Law Divine or Humane allows infringment of and which what could repair but that satisfaction I did as had so much Reason to petition K. William concerning as being his Servant that had so disgraced me in the House to cause him to marry your Petitioner so ruined who sitâ—ing on the Royal Seat of K. Charles the First the 2d and K James all 3 my Debters but having the abovesaid Usâ—ge at Court therefore present my Case here your selves also appointing and keeping a day of remembrance for the Royal Martyr which Civility you will contradict not paying a piece of such particular service to him or any Majesty the Use of which principal comes to 100 l per Anum therefore not to be put in a List of disgrace as uncertainty Not are the Children of the Kingdom to be thrust out and introduce Strange Therefore as Gentlemen afford your help and appoint some Member to receive my Petition as one friendless though born in the Kingdom whose Piety if Citizens of Heaven will not desert but effectually consider the Grievances and pay the Debt to me a Treasury Martyr Therefere your Humble Petitioner