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That your petitioner [Mary Robinson] is a very aged woman, and hath for this two yeares or thereabouts bin bedridd [bedridden, unable to walk] but haveinge sent her sonne with a horse and armes into the Kings Armye, and maintaineing him in that service, her estate is therefore sequestred [confiscated], and being hartily sorry for this her offence. Shee humbly prayes this honourable Committee to take her distressed condition into consideration
« Return to Women and the English Civil WarsThis is a petition from Mary Robinson to a Parliamentary Committee that dealt with confiscated lands, July 1646.
- Which side did Mary support?
- Why is she making this petition or request?
- How might the Civil Wars have put families in a difficult situation?