To the Right Honourable Sr. Edward Bellamy< no role >
Knight Lord Mayor of the City of London , And to
the rest of the Justices of Oyer and Terminer and
Goal Delivery held at the Sessions House in
the old Bailey for the sd: City.

The Humble Petition of Benjamin Brooke< no role >

Sheweth

That your Petitioner haveing been a Prisoner for Debts
in Woodstreet Compter above a Year past was on the Eleventh day
of February last Charged in Custody of the Keeper thereof with a
Warrant of Detainer for assaulting and forceably robbing Mary
Crane< no role > of five Guineas and two Shillings a Copy of which
Said warrant is hereunto Annexed.

That your Petitioner has being Since removed from the Said
Compter to newgate Charged with the said Warrant.

That your Petitioners wife (named in the said Warrant)
being lately tryed as an Accessary to the said Felony, was
Acquitted of the Same by a Jury of the Country.

That Severall Sessions have Intervened Since your
Petitioner was first Charged with the said warrant without
any Indictment being preferred Against him; And in regard
your Petitioner is not Guilty of the said Felony.

Therefore your Petitioner most humbly pray
That he may be either tryed for the Same, or
Discharged this present Sessions.

And your Petitioner (as in Duty bound) will ever pray Etc.

Benn: Brooke< no role >
11th. Septr. 1735 .