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and Deplorable Condition in some relief as shall seem good to your Princely 

 Mercy ; And your Petitioner as in Duty bound will for ever Pray &c. 



This Petition was presented 

 at London several Times about 

 the year 1688 but to no purpose. 



To the memory of Nathaniel Hickman. 



A copy of Some of those Verses my Brother Edmund wrote and sent to 

 my Mother some time after the Death of my Father being the 19 Day of 

 September, 1703, aged 77. 



Hail! happy Glorious Saint to whom all praise is due 

 Thou best of Husbands parents and of Christians too 

 Could Truth and Virtue ward the stroke of Death 

 You surely never had resigned your Breath ; 

 But all Mankind promiscuously must have, 

 Their portion in the Chambers of the Grave. 



All that I here shall mention of his Line 



Is that 'twas Noble Loyal and Divine 



Two Bishops his great Grand sires by his Mother 



Great Pilkington of Durham one and Mey of Carlisle the other 



The eldest son of Durham marry'd Carlisle's Daughter 



From whom his mother had her birth 12 months after 



(In Holy Orders He) at last they came 



To live at Hambledon in th' Shire of Buckingham. 



Tho's Father's Line was not so high in Blood 

 Yet 'twas Divine and Loyal just and good 

 He from the North near the same place did come 

 Whence this great Doctor did of Hambledon. 



Not mean nor low as plainly do appear. 

 His Grandfather has at least five Hundred pounds a year 

 Breeding his second Son for the Priesthood he 

 A Student came to the University 

 Of Oxford — and a disputant became 

 For Knowledge Learning, judgment had the Fame 

 Where marrying this great Doctor's eldest Daughter 

 They came to live in Wiltshire shortly after 

 At Upton Parsonage — at which place was born 

 That pious soul to whom I now return. 

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