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advance of this Sum of money was to Enable him was to enable him to make a Proper Provision for his wife & his Four children during his absence from home, The Property of the Said mungo Park being insufficient for that Purpose, The whole proceeds thereoff now in the Receipt of your memorialist, not amounting to the Sum of one hundred Pounds a year.
That the delay that has already taken place in the Payment of this money has causd various inconvenience to the Wife and Family of the Said mungo Park, whose affairs were arrangd for an annual expenditure of £150 a year from the time of his departure, which they were in Full Expectation to Receive & which the interest of the money Thousand Pounds Promised would, with the Proceed of Mr Parks Property, have Provided for them, had it been Paid at the time agreed upon originaly
Your Memorialist therefore Humbly prays that he may be permitted to exhibit to Such