To the Worshipfull the Magistrates
at the Sessions House on Clerkenwell Green

The Humble Petition of James Tucker< no role >
a Prisoner in New Prison Clerkenwell for Bastardy

Most humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner hath been confined here
for the space of Eighteen Weeks and upwards in a
during which time he hath unhappily experienced
the want of almost every necessary of Life having
had nothing else to subsist on but the Goal allowance

That in this State of Mistery and Distress
it is totally out of your Petitioners power for want
of Friends to procure sufficient Bondsmen to
indemnify the Parish against any Charges on this
occasion.

Your Petitioner Therefore most
humbly implores your Worships to
take his deplorable Case into your
consideration: Most humbly beseeching
you to permit him to enter his own
Recognizance; your Petitioner hereby
offering in future should it ever be
in his Power to do every necessary
act to discharge the Parish against
such an Incumbrance

And Your Petitioner as in duty
bound shall ever pray Etc