To the Right Honourable Slingsby Bethell< no role >
Esquire Lord Mayor of the City of London
and to the Rest of the Honourable Bench in
their General Session of Gaol Delivery Assembled

The 2d. Humble Petition and Prayer of
Samuel Arrowsmith< no role > a Prisoner.

Sheweth

That on the Twenty Fifth Day of March 1756 , Your
Petitioner was Committed Prisoner to the Poultry Compter
London on the oath of William Griffiths< no role > and other, for
Feloniously Publishing four Forged Bills of Exchange for
the Payment of Money, and also a Forged Note for the
Payment of Money with Intention to Defraud the said
William Griffiths< no role > , He the said Samuel knowing the Same
to have been Forged and Counterfeit, against the Peace, and
now is a Prisoner Confined in Newgate under the Same Charge

Your Petitioner therefore most Humbly
now, as well as at the last Sessions of Oyer and Terminer
Prays That at this Present Session of Gaol
Delivery of Newgate Holden for the City of
London on and County of Middlesx, He may
be Tryed, Bailed, or Discharged Pursuant
to the Statute in that Case made and Provided

And Your Petitioner shall Pray Etc.
Saml Arrowsmith< no role >