To The Worship full Bench of Justices
Sitting att Hicks Hall

The Humble Petition of Edward Bird< no role > and
Francis Bird< no role >

Humbly Shew

That your Petitioners together with one John Martin< no role >
Indicted Last Sessions For Assaulting Martha Harris< no role > To wch Indictmt.
yor. Petrs. being Persons ignorant in Mres of Law Pleaded not
Guilty and For want of Bail were Remanded Back to New Prison
where they had been Some time before Last Sessions and are now
Still Confined

That your Petitionrs. are very Poor and not in a Capacity
to Traverse the Sd. Indictment By reason of their Extream Poverty
Therefore Yor. Petrs. wave their Former Plea and Plead Guilty

Yor. Petrs. Therefore humbly Crave yor
Worships Tender Consideration of their
Deplorable Circumstances and that Yor.
Worshipps will be Pleased to Order yor.
Petrs. to be Brought before the Court in Order
to Wave their Said Plea and Plead Guilty
and Further to Submitt to Such Order
and Direccons in the Pr.misses As to yor
Worships Shall Seem meet

And Yor. Petrs. Shall Ever Pray Etc