An Abstract of the unfortunate and unparallel CASE of Eliz. Wandesford, Weddow and Relict of Garret Foulkes, Esq and of her Aged Mother and Children, who are by the faithful services and sufferings of their Friends, left miserable Objects of the Care and bounty of this Just and Merciful Assembly.  
THE first beginning of their Tragical scene, of Misery above others, was occasioned by the unfortunate Mr. Foulkes' appearing so early in Arms, in defence of this Government; for which he and several of his Relations, who were Persons of Emenency and Note in that Kingdom, were taken Prisoners, and Condemned to be Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered; upon which sad sentence his unfortunate Family, being more filled with the Consideration of the unhappiness, than thoughts of a remedy; had whilst others were sending their Families and Effects for England, all their Worldly substance Seized and taken from them as Traitor's Goods, long before King James Landed, or any Person suffered in that Kingdom; but having in the Prisons of galway and Doublin several Reprieves sent them, was after the breach of the Boyne, released by His present Majesty: But upon the said Mr. Foulks' recovery of a great fit of Sickness, occationed by his long Confinement, he to Signalise his Loyalty and Zeal farther, went with his Nephew Colonel Foulkes to the Battle of Aghrim, where he and one of the Petitioners Brothers lost their lives together, which Compleared the unhappy Number, since and before, of five Brothers and a Husband with their whole Fortune; Lost in the service besides several other Relations too Numerous to Mention. That the said Eliz. Wandsford's Aged Mother being ready to sink under the Oppression of too just a grief for the loss of so many Sons, had instead of the least Compassion, her Choice reduced to two very sad Necessesities; whether she should be burnt in the House, or otherwise destroyed if she came forth; But being no longer able to hold out in the Flames, was forced to to expose herself and Family to the mercy of the Enemy, and after being Pillaged and Plundered by them, she and those poor Orphans attempted to make their escapes to Cork, or where ever else their pitiless Fortune should lead them; but the Enemy soon pursued their unhappy wand'ring Lives, and with an inflexible Cruelty barborously Murdered one of the Petitioners Brothers, but to him was more mercifully Cruel then to the rest, for her Aged Mother, Sister and Children, they stripped even of their very Shifts; with the Terror and Cold of which, her Sister and Child died the same Night in the Fields, and by the hardships they endured shortened the Lives of several of the Petitioners own Children also, that the miserable survivers of them lay a considerable time in a very weak Condition, in a Waste and desolate Part of the Country, having no friends Left a this side the Grave, that would hazard the bringing them out of the Enemy's Quarters, where during the War: the West being the Seat of It, they suffered more than Tongue and Pen could Express; that Her Majesty upon the Lords Justices of Ireland's Letters, in behalf of the Petitioners, was therefore Graciously pleased, in Compassion to their Misfortunes, to Grant them a Pension of 200 l. per Ann. which was as appears the express words of the Patent, to be concinued to them till their Majesties could make a Provision more suitable to their Sufferings for them, as appears by the annexed Certificate, that His Majesty in Order to make good Her promise, of ever blessed Memory, did upon the Petitioners surrender of their Pension, Grant them a Custodiam, and last Spring His Letter for passing a Lease of Ninety nine Years of two hundred Pounds per Ann. out of the Forfeitures in Ireland. At the passing of which the Petitioners were in the Valluation of those Lands, to be Reprised and considered for three Years loss of the Incum of their Pension, which the Governments Report's ready to be produced sets forth, having received no benefit of the said Custodiam, by reason of the Encumbrance that after appeared upon those Lands after they passed Custodiam for them, upon the Solicitation of which, they may justly Charge their ruin, having with Toil of Body and Mind made eight Voyages too and from that Kingdom, in obtaining, fixing and exchanging those Grants, which has not only eaten up the benefit of His Majesty's intended bounty, but run the Petitioners more in Debt, than the Inheritance of so small a Grant can possible be worth: That the Petitioners having already smarted under a succession of trouble and a Afflictions of the heaviest kind, did therefore to avoid the Charge and Fitague of attendance, not seek for the benefit of Her Majesty's Gracious promise, of making a more suitable provision than the said two hundred Pounds per Ann. for so Large and distressed a Family.  
That the said Eliz. Wondesford notwithstanding her strait Circumstances, being not able to see her own human Nature, Pineing and Starving in the Persons of such near Relations, did therefore send for her Aged Mother and several Orphans left by her Brothers, in order to partake of what small Fortune God Almighty had blessed her with; but her Mother being too Feeble and Aged for such an undertaking, unfortunately broke her Thigh by a fall lately on her Journey to this Kingdom, which must render the small remnant of Life very Miserable; but much more so, if deprived of the Means that supports her, and the helpless Family of Children, whose whole dependence under God, is upon this small Estate, though its the sorrowfullest Bread they ever Eat, that's purchased with the Lives of their nearest and dearest Relations. The Case therefore being so very hard, and to Cruel to be Patterned amongst the worst of their Countries; it's therefore humbly hoped, they being both sufferers, and by giving up their Pension Purchasers, that their Case will not be looked upon as a Common Case, being in its several Circumstances not to be paralleled in the whole Kingdom, the Consideration of which together with the particular regard Her Majesty had to it, as appears by the annexed Certificate of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, will they humbly hope Incline this Honourable House to Establish them in their Grant, or give them something equivalent to the said two hundred per Ann. and the three Years loss of the Incum of their Pension of two huudred a Year, according to His Majesty's derections and Intentions towards them, otherwise the Aged Grandmother, and helpless Famaly of Children, whose whole dependence was upon this small Grant; must be exposed to all the misery Imaginable, and for ever lie wrapped in the Ruins of their Parent's fate, except the Mercy and Goodness of this Honourable House interposes between them, and the great Danger that threatens those Lives, which could never by them be owned with Comfort, since so Miserably reduced and persecuted by fortune.  
WE do hereby Certify, that upon Mrs. Foulkes applying herself to Her Majesty, after the loss of her Husband and five Brothers in Their Majesty's service; it was Her Majesty's desire and particular Order to Us at our coming into this Kingdom, that notwithstanding any stop put to other Pentions, hers of two hundred Pounds a Year should be well paid and Continued to her, till Their Majesties could Conveniently give her something better and more suitable to her sufferings in Liew of it: In Compliance therefore to Her Majesty's Commands, and to prevent any scruple or difficulty she should for the future meet with on that account. We Certify this to be Her Majesty's pleasure and express Commands to Us at our coming into this Kingdom.  
Given at Their Majesty's Castle of Dublin the 30th of June, 1693. Sidney.  
The Original to be produced if required.   

The CASE of Elizabeth Wandesford, Widow and Relic of Garret Foulkes, Esq etc.