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the “Sunday’s fight” at Lipson; a man killed in storming Fort 
Arundel; Robert Saggamore, wounded at Mount Edgcumbe, and 
taken prisoner to Lydford, where he died; and John Pine, 
mariner, slain in the fight at Pennycomequick, being gunner of 
the fort, and commanded by Capt. Richard Clarke, who in the said 
fight, the town being stormed, was likewise wounded. 
To the right Hole the Lords, Appointed Judges for the Western Circuits. 
The humble petition of Joan Evens, Elizabeth Ball and Alse Worth, all of — 
Plymouth, in the County of Devon. 
Sheweth 
That yo poore petitioners for theese many yeares have beene in ex- 
treame want, and liued in great misery, by reason theire husbands were all 
slaine in the late Warre in the defence of this Towne, leaving to each of 
y’ poore petitioners three or foure small children, who are not able to help 
themselves, neither have any helpe from any others, except from yo poore. 
petitioners wh is very small God knowes. And notwithstanding yo" peti- 
tioners haue often tymes earnestly importuned the Authority in this place to 
comiserate their sad and lamentable cases, and to redresse theire grievances 
and to satisfy the debts oweing from the souldiery which hath undonne 
y’ petitioners, yett all the comfort wee can receive from the Authority heere 
is they wish it did lye in theire power to helpe vs; 
I Capt Arthur Gaye of Plymouth 
doe hereby certify thse premisses 
to bee trueth, witnes my hand 
this 24 of August 1649 
ARTHUR GAYE. 
The premisses considered and in regard yo" poore petitioners seuerall 
charges are greate, and theire goods expended for the maintenance of the 
souldyery, the lyues of theire dearest friends lost, and yett noe recompense, 
yo' poore petitioners doe therefore most humbly pray yot Honnots for to 
represent theire miserable conditione the supreame Authority of this nation 
as that some releefe may bee ordered speedily for yo" petitioners, without 
which unquestionably they and theire poore chilldren shall perysh for want, 
and yo' petitioners shall ever pray &c 
The petition bears the following endorsements—the first on the 
left hand margin of the face, and the other two on the back : 
I desyre the Justics of the peace att they’ next qt Sessns and the to next 
Justics or either of them in the meane time to take theire order for the 
reliefe of pett and her chilldren as by the statuis and ordinances of Pliamt 
i ired 
sich oe 3 Aug 1649 Plim-mouth JOHN WYLDE 
Plym® the 20'» of Agt 1649 I knowe these men to dye in the service 
of the Pliamnt Paine FRAnNcIs 
I am informed of the truth of this petition Timotuy Axsop Major 
