To Mr. Wilkinson

The humble Petition of James Cusick< no role > and Lawrence Gainer< no role >
Taylor now Prisoners in Clerkenwell New Prison

Sheweth

That your Poor Petrs. have been confined in Prisoner ever since
January last past only for a Common Assault & having no
Friends they are almost ready for parish for want of the
Common Support of Life & Cusicks wife is same & helpless &
utterly incapable of getting her Bread for herself and four small
Children the Eldest of them now lying very ill in the Small
Pox and are reduced to great Hardships

And Gainers wife has three small Children and she has
been visited with a tedious fit of Sickness To that She and her
Children are reduced to great and Want

Therefore they humbly entreat you Dear Sr. to take
thereforetheir unhappy Circumstances into your
Serious Consideration and forgive them the fees of
the Court which is impossible for them to past that they
may be discharged form their Confinemt. and by their
future Diligence in their Calling save their poor
Families from ruin and as in Duty bound they
shall ever pray Etc

James Cusick< no role >
Lawrence Gainer< no role >