To Thomas Lane< no role > Esqr Chairman and the West of the
Worshipfull Bench of Justices now Assembled at Hick's Hall

The Humble Petition of Thomas Hopkins< no role > Keeper of
the House of Correction at Clerkenwell

Humbly Sheweth

That your Worships Petitioner has now a Prisoners
Committed to his Custody for Three months in the mean time to be
three Times Publickly Whipt in the Market Place of Endfield , for having
but Down a Beech Fee in his Majestys Chace of Endfield her Name is
Mary Halsey< no role >

That your Worships Petitioner's Prodecessours has
been at a Very Great Expence in Attending the Prisoners to the
Place of Punishment upon the Same Occasions, and as your
Worship's Petitioner has a Large Family he Humbly Begs
Your Worship's will take his Case into Consideration to grant
Your Petitioner Such Allowances for the Conveyance of the
Above Prisoner to her Place of Punishment, as your Worships
in Your Great Wisdom Shall Think most Proper

23 Febry 1764

And as in Duty Bound Your Worship's
Petitioner Will Ever Pray Etc

Thomas Hopkins< no role >