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<heading:edcomment:RICHARD_FERRAR_TO_HIS_MOTHER>

Most Deare Mother , beinge In that extremety of missery that I nowe am
falen Into , whether should I fly for succor but to the wombe that bare
me . (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.3)

I doe desier you for Christ Iesus sake not to lett your pore Sonne to
goe to a Iayle , there to ly , dy and Rott : (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.4)

Even for my deare fathers sake I alsoe humbly crave yours and my
brothers helpe at this tyme (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.5)

or else I am for euer lost . (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.6)

truly I am soe possessed w=th= extremity of greife y=t= I knowe $not
what to write . (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.7)

but my missery makes me capable to desier helpe and Realese ,
(RFERRAR-E2-H,278.8)

this is the first tyme that I am vnfortunately falen Into the handes of
a Credittor One Thomas Sampson (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.9)

the debt is about fifty poundes . (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.10)

and I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} but hope that hee $will $be {TEXT:wilbe}
Reasonable . (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.11)

The baylifs swere and damne themselves y=t= yf I cann satisfy him noe
other acction shall come against me (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.12)

but I shall bee delivered safly at my lodging . (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.13)

I doe beseech you Deare Mother lett me not bee a Newgate bird and soe
for ever to loose my liberty and fortunes . (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.14)

Your distresfull pore Sonne Richard Farrar (RFERRAR-E2-H,278.15)