To Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knt . and others the Justices
of our Lord the King Assigned to keep the Peace
in and for our Lord the King and to hear and
Trespasses in and for the County of Middlesex &

The Humble Petition of John Stuart Campbell< no role >
now a prisoner in New prison by virtue of a
warrant granted by the Court Some Time in
October Last past.

Most Humbly Sheweth

That your Worships Poor Petitioner
being fallen into the Hands a Spitefull and Malicious
Prosecutor upon no other Foundation than knowing
him to be Chargd with High Pacason and Breaking out
of Horsharn Goal in Comt: Sussex (and was apprenhended
in London and Carried both to Horsharn) and your B [..]
Prosecutor being married to a Rich Widow is not Willing
that any who knows his Bad Character should be
near him has commenced an unjust indictment
for no less than Willfull and Court Perjury
thereby to get Shot of your Pettr: Boasting & that
he will give Fifty Pounds to Transport your Pett
And in Stead of Proving me what he intends on the Contrary
in this Court he has put one to Charge of Drawing
Four Different Recognizance and I have got beat
and Almost Murthered in the said prosecutors House
at Several Times, which can be Proved in Court and has
put your Poor Petitr. to great Charges to make them
keep the Piece &

And your Petitr. being quite Cripple having last
all his Toes by a Mortifcation and in Dancer
of Loosing both his Fleet and in Starnge Country
Destitute of Friends and every necessary of Life
which has Brought him to the Lowest Intremity
of Poverty, most Humbly Prays that your
Worships would be pleased to Commisserate his
unhappy condition as he cannot live long for
want of a Surgeon and in Duty bound he shall
for ever pray Etc

John Stuart Campbell