To the Right Honeble : Sr . Robert Beachcroft< no role >
Kt : and Mayor of the City of London
To his Worshipfull Bretheren the Aldermen
& Recorder of said City

The humble Petition of Robert Palmer< no role >
Chirurgeon and Citizen of London , now a
Prisonr: in the Poultry Compter

Humbly Sheweth

That Ye. poor Peticoner being through
his many Losses and misfortunes reduc'd to a very lew Estate
and Condition was Arrested for Debt in the year 1710 and confim'd
close Prisonr: in the Poulty Compter aforesd. That during Yr.
Peticoners Confinemt. aforesd an Indictment for Perjury and
Committment thereupon from the Worshipfull Sr . Peter King< no role >
Recorder was brought and lodg'd agt yr. sd Peticonr: Since which
time Yr. Peticoner has endur'd great Hardships by a long & ledious
Sickness want of all most all manner of Necessarys destitule of
Friends and moneys, the truth of which has been related to all his
Creditors and they in compassion to Yr. Peticoner discharg'd Yr.
Peticonr: from all Debts Etc above Fourmen ths past. Your
humble Peticonr: therefore has been confin'd ever Since upon no other
Account whatever but the aforesd Indictmt. & Committent And for
want of monys and Friends to assist yr. Peticoner legally to discharge
himself from this any malicious Indictmt. & Committment. Yr.
poor Peticoner: has and Still Sufferrs so much

Wherefore Ye. poor Petitionr. most humbly beserches That
he may have an Order to be brought up
before this Honeble: Court to plead to the aforesd
Indictmt. Your Peticoner having legally Sumon'd the [..]
Plt. who procur'd the sd Indictmt: to be lay'd agt. Ye. Peticonr to appear

And Your poor Peticonr. as in Duty bound Shall ever pray Etc