To P Honrble Bench now Setting at
old baily ;

The humble Petition of Eliz yours< no role > & Mary Williams< no role >
in behalf of themselves & ye rest now in Cusstody at Clarken
-well Bridewell .

Sheweth,

That Yor Petition being for divers
Faults Commited Close Prisonr to Clerkenwell bridewell , where not with
-Standing Yor Ld ships & P Honrble Courts ordr, are detained in a perrishis
Conticon this twelve weeks beyond ye ordr [..] of yor Ld ship & Honrble
Bench they demanding Fortie Shillings without which was in no wife he
discharged therefore in this & all othr our wretched Conditions are humble
hegg yor Ld Ships Havr & Consideration, haveing no othr Dependance for
Releife ye barbairs, of this place being such at wherevr any poor Peti=
=nr happens to Hall sick, instend of support, Here Small allowance of one
helpeny a day is taken from them, or any one taken in Labour, Instead
of getting helps they are denied of wth helps here To be had, I wants of [..]
was to lately yr Loss of one pson Infant, & not with standing this Miserable
weathr, hear is Hethr Fire or Candle attend unless where with of there
own to buy it, which Few or none here hath, In pouch ye what
with Cold, all treatment, & want of food their within ye Space of
one Mounth hath bin Perrished to death, as appears by oath made
before ye Ground, & when dead here above Ground for Three or tenn
dayes [..] us, whoes Conditions are so very Deplorable yt
unless ye Honrble Court is pleased to take Compassion an our wretshed
slate, we shall in little sume Revisable prennst

yor Petinr there Jane humbley begg
yor Peticon ye Honrble Courts Co [..]
peticon. p. as i duty yor Petinr shall
Etc pray