To William Mainwaring< no role > Esquire Chairman and the Rest
of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex in their present General Quarter Session
of the Peace assembled

The Petition of Richard Bond< no role >

Most humbly Sheweth

That your Petitioner hath kept the Tap House of the New
Prison at Clerkenwell for the space of twelve Years at the
annual Rent of Thirty Pounds; during which period your
Petitioner Flatters himself that his Conduct has met with your
Worships approbation

That on the 16th. of August last your Petitioner was
(very unexpectedly) served with the Notice hereunto annexed regard
him to quitt Possession of the Premises he holds of your Worships
at Lady Day next

That your Petitioner fully trusts that the Cause
of his being served with this Notice doth not arise from any
impropriety of Conduct in him

That your Petitioner is induced to belive that
your Worships are of Opinion that during your Petitioners
residence of Twelve Years at New Prison , Hehath greatly
contributed to the safety of the Prisoners therein; and He begs
leave to remark that in the Year 1780 and 1781 when the
Goal of Newgate was demolished and a Number of Felons
were (from Necessity) confined in New Prison -Your
Petitioner was a principal Cause of preventing many of them
(who had got on the Walls) from escaping; with other Instances