To the Honble Chairman and to the rest of the
Justices Assigned to hold the Sessions of the peace for
the County of Middx at Hicks Hall in the aforesaid
County

The Humble Petition of Edward Hudson< no role > now a Prisoner in
Newgate

Sheweth

That your Petitioner and his Wife were at the last Sessions
of Oyer and Terminer held at JusticeandHall in the Old Bailey tried
on an Indictment On the Coventry Act by the present Prosecutor
Lawrence Berry< no role > and his Accomplices John Wright< no role > and Thomas Osborne< no role >
and were Acquitted

That thereupon the said Berry indicted me only At the Same
Sessions for an Assault and your Petr. pleaded to the Same

That the Indictment on wch your Petr. now Stands indicted is
for An Assault (on which Your Petr hopes to be tryed this day) is
for One and the Same Offence with that your Petr. and his Wife were
Acquitted

That your Petr. did on Wednesday last cause the Prosecutor
Lawrence Berry< no role > to be serv'd with Notice that your Petr. intended to take
his Trial this Sessions before your Worships in this Honble Court
And the person who Served the Same is ready to make Oath of the
Service thereof

That your Petr. and his Wife were on the first Indictment
confined in Newegate upward of Eight weeks

That your Petr. has continued in Gaol for these 15 Week together
and must be inevitably ruined if these Prosecutions are postponed

Therefore Your Petr. most humbly Implores this
Honble Court will Order your Petrs. Trial may be
heard this Sessions So that your Petrs. (who doubts
not but it will Appear to the Satisfaction of this Court
that he is no wife Guilty of the Assault laid to
his ChargedAndmay thereby be Acquitted and if
otherwise to be punished in Such port as to this
Honble Court Shall think most proper and
convenient

And your Petr. as in Duly
Bound Shall ever pray Etc