Clerkenwell Bride [..]
June 3d. 1777

To the Worshipfull; His Maj [..]
Justices of the Peace for the County [..]
Middle [..]

The Humble petition of the Unhappy prisoners
try'd last Sepr. Sessions 1776 for Petty
Larceny and sentences to hard Labour in
the House of Correction for 3 Years

We Your Miserable and Unfortunate Petitioners
Resole wth. remorse and deep contrition for the in [..]
they have made in their Country Laws the drea [..]
Consequence of which they now Labour under in a
deprivation of their liberty with the accumulated
wretchedness of the most penurious want and the
most fearfull distress

Desirous to make every repars [..]
they possibly can to their Country they woud [..]
to serve his Majesty on board any of his
WarOn which Condition and in Consider [..]
of their Youth fully persuaded of the Mercy [..]
Lenity of this Honorable Court they humbly im [..]
a remission of their sentence and your petitioners
as in Duty bound shall ever pray Etc. Etc. Etc

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