London

To the Right Honourable Sir
William Billers< no role > Knight Lord Mayor

The Humble Petition of Henry Bulley< no role >

Sheweth.

That Your Petitioner was at the last Sessions
holden at the Old Bayley Tried for Stealing a Pewter
Gallon Pott from the White Bear in Linnestreet of
which Offence he was Convicted and remaines a
Prisoner in Order to be Transported for the Same
pursuant to his Sentence

That Your Peticoner has for may Yeares
served in his Majestys Royal Navy in the Several
Ships following (to Wit) The Bedford, Autelops,
Feversham, Warspicke, Dreadnought, & Royal
Oake, and is at this time Entred on Board his
Majestye Ship the Hampton Court and has a
Wife and four Children who must be inevitably ruined
without Your Petitioners Assistance And the Mercy
of this Court

Your Petitioner therefore most
Humbly prays Your Lordship will
in Your Accustomed Goodness
Extend Your mercy to Your poor
Petitioner and remit his Sentence
to some Corporal Punishment as
to Yor Lordship shall Seem Meet

And Your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc

Henry Bulley< no role >

John Barber< no role >