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lent to the Crown and lost 50,000 li, and in the time of the 

 war was plundered of all he had and narrowly escaped with 

 his life, being- forced to fly for Guernsey, where he died in 

 prison ; their mother also died with grief. The present King 

 granted to four sisters (of whom the petitioners were two) £20 

 a quarter three years past, but £20 had only been received 

 prays for payment to keep three from starving." 



Minute " Read 10th January, 1698. They must apply to 

 the King, for my Lords can grant no pensions," page 1. This 

 Petition apparently bore no fruit, for it was succeeded by 

 another, a printed copy of which was in the possession of Mrs. 

 La Serre, of Bosqville, whose husband was a descendant of 

 one of the Petitioners. • 



" The claim- and demand of Rachel Baliol, Martha Baliol, and 

 Margaret Baliol, the three surviving daughters and co-heirs of Peter 

 Baliol, Esquire, late of the city of St. Peter Paul (sic) in the Island of 

 Guernsey, and Dame Colnett Boden his wife, both deceased, and also 

 of John Dupree, son and heir of Susan Dupree, Nicholas Agenor, son 

 and heir of Rebecca Agenor, Colnett Baliol, heir of Hester Baliol, and 

 Mary Sutton, the granddaughter and heir of Patient Nichol, which said 

 Susan, Rebecca, Hester, and Patient are all dead, and were four others 

 of the daughters and co-heirs of the said Peter Baliol, deceased, That 

 the said Peter Baliol, having in his lifetime advanced and lent to the 

 Crown of England the sum of Sixty thousand pounds sterling, and 

 receiving no satisfaction for the same, or any part thereof, to the time 

 of his death, his late Majesty King William of blessed memory, for the 

 discharge and payment of the said Sixty thousand pounds, and the inte- 

 rest thereof, and for other loyal service done by the said Peter Baliol, 

 and also for other great considerations, did, by his Letters Patent under 

 the Great Seal of England, bearing date in the ninth year of his reign 

 (1696-7), grant unto the said Susan, Rebecca, Rachel, Martha, Hester, 

 Patient and Margaret Baliol (the seven daughters, co-heirs and orphans 

 of the said Peter Baliol and Dame Colnett Boden his wife both de- 

 ceased) and their heirs for ever, the quit rents of the two provinces of 

 Munster and Leinster, and the thirds of the Clergy, and the seven- 

 tenths of the first-fruits in the Kingdom of Ireland. 



" That the said Patent is passed in the names of Richard Fitz- 

 Patrick Esquire, Lucy Armstrong, — . Conelly Esquire, and four others 

 (whose names the claimants do not know) in trust for the said seven 

 orphans, and which Letters Patent are stiled in the Books of Recitalls 

 of Patents of the Trustees of the f orecited estates in Ireland — No. 6. 



" That the said Trustees were altogether strangers to the claimants 

 or any of the orphans, and procured themselves to be nominated in the 

 said Patent without their knowledge, privitie, or consent. 



" That the said Trustees having received the said rents and profits 

 for some years, and converted them to their own use, His Majesty in 

 1701, upon application, was pleased by warrant to order that the 

 orphans should receive the said rents themselves from the date of the 

 said Patent, excluding the Trustees. And her present Majesty in 1702 

 was also graciously pleased to grant Her Warrant in Council to the 

 same effect. The said claimant Margaret Baliol (who is impowered by 

 her three living sisters and by the heirs of such that are dead as 

 appears by a letter of Attorney) in pursuance of a vote and Resolution 

 passed in the House of Commons February 6th 1707, doth give notice 

 that the said claimant is entitled to the money." 



