To the Right Honourable the [..]
[..] honourable Bench non Sitting att [..]
Hicks=s hall

The Petione of Elishah Humpboy< no role > non prisoner in the
Comonlyde of Newgate

[..] blie Sheweth

That your Petitioner being Fyned
Last Sessions For a Misdeameanour in the summe of Fybe [..]
MarksHe hes not one Farthing to help himself with nether
hes he ever since had any Freind to right him, nor releiff but the
allowance comon of the Sherriff, And your Petitioner being
a Young man in the Strenght of his Youth, is willing to Serve
in ther Majesties Service, And to that effect her already Spoke
with one officer who her & referred to entertain him.

May it therfor please the honourable
Bench to remitt my Fine, In order
I may Serve my Ring and Country
and spend my Good that way, rather
then Famish, being immured (without
your speedy and wonted Generositie) to it
very suddenlye

And Your Petioner shall pray [..]
Elishah Humpboy< no role >