To ye: Rt. Honble Sr. Richard Hoare< no role > Knt . Lord Majr.
of ye. City of London & to the rest of ye: Honble
Bench of Justices sitting at Justice Hall in the Old
Bailey

The Humble Peticon of Thomas Grotia< no role >
A Prisonr . in Newgate

Sheweth

That yor Petr: was Comittee to Newgate Charge for Sitting
a person in Newfoundlane from whence yor Petr:
was brought a Prisonr.

That yor. Petr is innocent of ye. fast Charg'd
agt him

Therefore Humbly prayes to be tryed this
Sessions or that he may be discharged from
his Confinemt. as this Honble Court shall
think fitt

And yor: Petr as the duly bonne shall
ever pray Etc