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shall be known by Our loving Subjects they will readily and cheerfully contribute their 

 Endeavours for accomplishing; the same. Know ye therefore that Our special Grace 

 and Favour We have given and granted and by these Our Letters Patent, under Our 

 Great Seal of Great Britain, We do give and grant unto the said poor Sufferers, and to 

 their Deputy and Deputies the Bearer and Bearers hereof authorized as is herein 

 after directed full Power, Licence, and Authority to ask, collect, and receive 

 the Alms, Benevolence, and Charitable Contributions of all Our loving Subjects within 

 all and every Our Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Towns, priviledged Places, Hamlets, 

 Cinque Ports, Districts, Parishes, and all other Places whatsoever throughout England, 

 Our Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Our Counties of Flint, Denbigh and Radnor, in 

 Wales, and from House to House throughout our Counties Palatine of Lancaster and 

 Chester, and Our Counties of York and Derby for the purpose aforesaid. And 

 therefore in pursuance of the Tenor of Our Act of Parliament, and in the Fourth Year 

 of the Reign of the late Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the better collecting 

 Charity Money on Briefs by Letters Patent and preventing Abuses in relation to such 

 Charities, Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby, for the better advancement of 

 These Our pious Intentions, require and command all Ministers, Teachers, and 

 Preachers, Churchwardens and Chapelwardens, and the Collectors of this Brief, and all 

 others concerned, that they and every of them observe the Directions in the said Act 

 contained and do in all things cor. form themselves thereunto, and that when the printed 

 Copies of these Presents shall Ke tenderedun to you, the respective Ministers and 

 Curates, Chm-chwardens and Chapelwardens, and to the respective Teachers and 

 Preachers of every separate congregation, and to any Person who teaches or preaches in 

 any Meeting of the People called Quakers, that you and every of you under the 

 Penalties to be inflicted by the said Act do receive the same. And you the respective 

 Ministers and Curates, Teachers and Preachers, and Persons called Quakers are, by all 

 persuasive Motives and Arguments, earnestly to exhort your respective congregations 

 and Assemblies to a liberal Contribution of their Charity for the relief of the said poor 

 Sufferers. And you, the Churchwardens and Chapelwardens, together with the 

 Ministers or some of the substantial Inh.abitants of the several Parishes and Chapelries 

 and all other places whatsoever within Our Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Chester, 

 and Our Counties of York and J erby, are hereby required to go from House to 

 House in the Week Days next following the publication of these Presents, to ask 

 and receive of and from the Parishioners and Inhabitants and all other Persons their 

 Christian and Charitable Contributions, and to take the Names in writing of such as 

 shall contribute thereunto and the sum and sums by them respectively given and 

 indorse the whole sums upon the said Printed Briefs in Words at length and subscribe 

 the same with your own proper Hands, together with the Name of the Parish and Place 

 where and the time when collected, and to enter the same in the Public Books of 

 Account kept for each Parish and Chapelry respectively, and the sum and sums collected 

 together with the Printed Briefs so indorsed you are to deliver to the Deputies and 

 Agents authorized to receive the same. And we do by these Presents nominate, consti- 

 tute, and appoint Our beloved and faithful Joseph Feilden and Adam Cottam, Esquires, 

 James Quartley, Henry Wiglesworth, Charles Wright and Robert Parkinson, 

 clerks ; Thomas Carr, Dixon Robinson and John Stevenson Salt, Gentlemen. 

 Trustees and Receivers for the said poor Sufferers of the Charity to be collected by 



