To the honorable the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of Robert Tayloe, Joseph Emerson, John Sawbridge and Edward Pearce : on the behalf of themselves and other poor marriners, to the number of five hundred and upwards, who served the East-India Company in their late wars against the great mogul, and other heathen princes: and on the behalf of the widows and orphans of other marriners to the like number, that perished in the said wars.