To the Right Honourable Sir William Billers< no role > Knight
Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Rest of the Honourable
the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery
for the City of London and County of Middlesex ,

The humble petition of Catherine Cole< no role > Widow

Humbly Sheweth
That Your Petitioner's Son
Thomas Cole< no role > , being but a few Months more than Thirteen Years
of Ago I was cast for Transportation last Sessions at the Old Baily
for Stealing Two Silver Spoons and a Brass Candlestick of his
Masters, which he was sedmed by Evil Counsell to take and afterwards
pawn, Intending to redeem and replace the Same before they were
missed.

That Your Petitioner by her Industry hath brought
up a Large Family of Children in Vertue and Sobriety, and
her Son (the Prisoner) till this Misfortune hath always behavid
himself with Honestly, and is now truly Penitent for his Fault.

That Your Petitioner having provided him a Master.
to go as a Servant and to be brought up on board One of his
Majesty's Ships of War,

Wee the Minister and Church Wardens
of the Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell
in the County of Middlesex Do certify, that
we have known the Petitioner and her said son
stay & lived in the Parish for Severaly Years last past, and believe the
Allegations of the said Petition to be True, and
that the said Thomas Cole< no role > , if the Petition be
complied with, may be coclaimed,

Humbly Prays That in
regard to her Sons Tonder Years his
Sentence of Transportation may be
reversed and chang'd into Corporal
Punishment

And Your Petitioner with
her Children will over pray Etc.

Gil. Burnet< no role > . Minister

Wm Browning< no role >
Wm Kroger< no role > }
Church Wardns.