To Willm. Mainwaring< no role > Esqr
one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace and
also Member of Parliament for Middlesex

The Humble Petition of
Mary Stewart< no role > tried by the name of
Mary Gardiner< no role >

Sheweth

That your petitioner was tried at Hicks
Hall the thirteenth day of December last for keeping
a disorderly House and lamentable for her received
the Judgment of the Court to be imprisoned 12 months
in Bridewell

It would be imprudent for your petitioner
to animadvert upon the Circumstances that awaited the
Trial yet your petitioner Satisfied of the Humanity that
has always distinguished your Character humbly
requests that you will revise it in your recollection to
Afford this her petition its due weight

Your petitioner has four unfortunate Infants
to support from her Labor and in her Conviction
fall helpless and innocent Victims without the
means of Comfort or Sustenance

Your petitioner is fully Sensible of the Justice
of the Laws of this County and the necessity there
is (for the preservation of public peace) to prevent
dissipation and Riot yet she hopes the Circumstance
of her helpless family and her having obeyed the
direction of the Vestry Clerk in removing the nuisance
Supposing that would have ended the Business will
be suffered to opperate with you

That Since your Petitioner has been confined
in Goal the prisoners confined there have many of
them died in as much as to alarm your petitioner
with fears for her own Safety and the more so