The King
agt.
Samuel Harford< no role > Elizabeth Sancoe< no role >
and Rebecca Sancoe< no role > }

The the Right Honourable Sir John Thompson< no role > Knight
Lord Mayor of the City of London

The Humble Petition of Elizabeth Sancoe< no role > now a prisoner in the
Poultry Compter London

Sheweth

That Your Petitioner hath been confined ever since September Sessions last at the
Prosecution of one John Amson< no role > and that Your Petitioner and the other Defendants came upon
their Tryal at the last Sessions of the peace at Guildhall for a forceable Entry and taking any
Goods and Assaulting the Prosecutor Wife.

That the Court was then pleased to direct all parties to execute General Releases
and the Defendant Harford to Deliver the said Amson all the Goods upon Oath that were not
continued in the Inventory of Distress by him made And the said Amson did thereupon
receive his papers and other Goods as in the Affidavit annexed is mentioned but the Court
being adjourned before the Affidavit annexed could be made the said Amson now refuses to
discharge your Petitioner although he hath received his Goods and hath had Notice and a
Copy of such Affidavit and although General Releases were then executed which General
Releases were deposited in the hands of James Atkinson< no role > one of the Serjeants at Mace of the
Said City and which he now refuses also to deliver to your Petitioner whereby your Petitioner
and her Child another of the above Defendants are reduced to the utmost extreamily
and want

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Prays That in
tender Consideration of the Premisses your Lordship with please
to grant an Order to discharge her from her grevious
Confinement or to afford her such other relief as to your
great Wisdom shall seem meet

And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray Etc.

Eliz. Sancoe< no role >