File Clenennau letters and papers 410 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - Fra[nces] Ridgeway, London, to her father, Sir William Maurice,

Has been very sick whereby her wants are increased and her means of release lessened. Beseeches her good father, in the tender bowels of fatherly affection, to have compassion on her present misery and the distressed estate of her poor children who are like to perish unless he extend a charitable hand to support them. Although she has never deserved any good from her father, begs him to afford her relief and that speedily. Has neither food nor clothes nor ability to pay for house room. Her misery is at its highest pitch and her ruin at hand. Having some hope of her father, she is a little refreshed with comfort, otherwise she would despair and die. See also No. 455.