To the Worshipfull William Mainwaring< no role > Esqr . and the Rest of his Majesties Justices of the peace
for the County of Middlesex in their General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled

The Humble Petition of John Sale< no role > Thos. Ransom< no role > Thos. Hartman< no role >
Richd. Clarke< no role > , Thos Cooper< no role > , Henry Gray< no role > , John Lloyd< no role > , Christopher Townson< no role > , John Watly< no role > , Levy Soloman< no role >
James Richards< no role > , Ricd. Miller< no role > , Richard William< no role > , Thos Ivers< no role > , John Wood< no role > , John Ragshaw< no role >
Robert Broughton< no role > , Ricd. Noatly< no role > and Edward Flinn< no role > ,

Humbly Sheweth

That your petitioners, as on at the Sessions
by the peace, held for the County of Middlesex , at the Sessions house for the sd. County. Convicted
of being Rogues and Vagabonds, and Senmerd to be Imprisoned, in Clerkenwell Bridewell , Viz.
John Tale< no role > , Thos. Ransom< no role > and Thos. Hartman< no role > for the term of two Years, and the rest of your
petitioners for the term of Six Months.

That your Petrs. are most of them labouring men
Some of them have been brought up to Trades, and were never Charged with any Guna, but that
which they stand, Consider of and the punishment which they have already Recd, by Imprisonment
And Nothing but the prison Allowance, to Subsistan, Will ever deter them from being found
in the like Situation again,

That your petitioners conceiving. that after they were Convicted
it was the Intention of your Worships, to have sent them into. his Majesties, Service, exsperting
such a delivarance, they bore their Imprisonment patiently, but that the War being now at an and
and a number of his Majesties, Ships paid off they Conceive that their deliverance. thro that means
Cannot be Obtained. they therefore humbly hope. that your Worships, Will take their case into
consideration and Rystor them their liberty. which if they can Once Obtain, they faithfully promise
tobe take themselves, to their Respective Labours, and Calings. and never more be found in bad
Company and disorderly houses,