To the Right Worshipfull Sr John
Hobland< no role > Lord Mayor and to others of his
Majesties Justices att the old baliff

the Humble Petition of Wm.
Bromfield< no role >

Humbly Sheweth

That your petioner haveing been above a year
in newgate and Else where a prisoner & taken in
a Small french Privateer and never yet had a
trayl Tho by divers petitions [..] desiered the same
in this Court and by, his own request of this
honble bench att Easter Sessions then not being
provided of witnesses your petitioners tryal was put
off

Your Lodspdr Pettr. humbly beggs
that he may be admitted to baile
or a trayl As being by Long
Imprisonmt. reduced to great Poverty
Etc

And yr. Pettr. as in duty shall a bound
to pray

The Humble Petition
of William Bromfield< no role >