To the Rt. Honoble Sr. Wm. Stewart< no role > Knt . Lord
Mayor of the City of London And the Rest
of the Honoble Bench now Sitting att Justice
Hall in the Old Bayly

The humble Peticonr of Benjamin King< no role > now a Prisoner
in Newgate

Humbly Sheweth

That your Petitioner was upon the Twenty Fourth Day of May
last Comd. to Newgate by A. Ward Esqr. for Personateing the
Names of severall persons And for Transferring their Stock in the
South Sea to the Companyes Damage And that your Peticoner
has been Close Confined in the said Goal Ever since his
Comitment. And that hee is Apprehensive hee shall not bee
Tryed for the same att this Sessions

Wherefore yor. Peticoner humbly
prays that hee may bee Tryed
[..] or Discharged this
Sessions that himself and Fairrly may
not bee Ruined

And hee is in Duty bound
Shall Ever pray