To the Rt Honoble Sr Wm Gore< no role > Knt Lord
Major of the City of London & the Rt
Worshpll Her Maties Justices of the Peace
in the Generall Quarter Sessions Assembled

The humble Petition of Joseph
Porrell< no role > a Poor Prisoner in Ludgate

Sheweth

That yor Prisoner hath been actually
a Prisoner in Ludgate Prison under the
Custody of Capt. Jno Pillkington< no role > Keeper [..]
the Said Rison before the first of Ja [..]
1701 and us Still detained there at the
Suite of John Griffin< no role > Richd Cowdrey< no role > Nathan
Deoring< no role > George Armstrong< no role > , James Thorpe< no role > &
Wm Hall< no role > John Hall< no role > & Isaac Barnes< no role > , James
Baker< no role > Richd Winnell< no role > Mathew Combs< no role >
for debt or damages & not haveing
to Mainetaine himselfe in the Said Prison
Yor Petition humbly beggs that [..] Court will be pleased to order
that Capt Jno Pilkington< no role > the Keeper of the Said Prison may att a
Certain day and since being Yor Petitioner before you with a Copy
of the Cauces of his Imprisonmt. That he may take ye Oath
Mencond in the late Act of Parliament made for the releif
of poor Prisoner for deed and be dischargd according to the
sd Act & that the sd Creditors may be orderd then & there so apeare
& Shew Cause If they Can why the Petion should not be dischrd accordingly

21-12-1702
Joseph Porrett< no role > took ye oath

Tho. Fryler< no role > of old change
perfomer his ones Creditor. on
Memdory List

Above 40 yeares old
nor debt
Procl made

And Yor Petitioner Shall Pray