To the Right Honourable Sir John Thompson< no role > Lord
Mayor of the City of London and to the rest of the
Bench of Justices at their Sessions held at the Old.
Bailey.

The Humble Petition of Pecock James now
a Prisoner in Newgate under Sentence of
Transportation

Sheweth.

That your Petitioner was this Present Sessions held
at the Old Bailey tryed and convicted for Stealing a
Ferkin of small Beer the property of Mr: Whiteman
value Ten Pence and now lyes under Sentence of
Transportation for the same.

That your Petitioner before this unhappy
Affair has always behaved himself well and lived in good
Creditt and Reputation and never been guilty or charged
with any Crime whatsoever, with the outmost humility &
has an abhorrence to the Crime Comitted and just Sence
of the Justice of his Tryall.

Your Petitioner most humbly Prays
your Lordship. that his Sentence of
Transportation may be changed into
some Corporal Punishment as to your
Lordship and Worships shall seem meet

And your Petitioner as in duty
found shall Ever pray

Pocock James< no role > .

We whose names are under
written do humbly Certify to
your Lordship that We beleive
the Contents of his Petition to
be true and that the Petitioner
is an Object of your Lordships
Pity and Compassion.

Wm Bradshaw< no role >
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Church Wardens [..] ymer Wood

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Overseers
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Walter Yerbury< no role >

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