To Thomas Lane< no role > Esqr : and the rest of His
Majesty's Justices of the Peace assembled, att this
Quarter Sessions of the Peace, att Hicks Hall in
Saint John's Street in the County of Middlesex

The humble Petition of Thomas Gascoyne< no role >

Sheweth

That your worship's Petitioner
was tryed att this Court for an Account of some hay bands
& a truss of Hay, and acquitted, And also shews that he
has a Family, upon which account he humbly craves that
he may not he detained or kept in Custody for his fees
of the Goal or Court, and that provided he should be
detain'd for such his Fees he must inevitably Perish
and likewise his Family.

So most humbly craves that
Your Worships may take his
hard & deplorable Case into Your
most wise, tendor and good
Consideration, and grant the
favour, so farr as that he your
Worships Petitioner may be sett
att Liberty in order to provide by
his honest Endeavours, for his himself
his Wife and Family, & he your
Petitioner will be for ever in
duty bound to pray Etc