To the Honourable Sir John Fielding< no role > Knight & the worshipfull
Bench of Justices at Guildhall westminster

May it Pleas Your Honr. Sir. John. This Humble Petition of
Willm. Baker< no role > is that Your Petitioner desires to recommend
Himself as an object of your Mercy and humbly Craves You to
take pity on his Distressed Situaton, Your Petitioner Sir haveing
a wife and two Small Children that is Labouring at this time
under a Severe fit of Sickness and in real want of the Principle
Necessaries of Life and is Entirely destitute of any Means to
Suply them therewith since his Confinement your petitioner
Implores Your Compassion on the Sufferings of his Unhappy
Infants and baggs that the Cry of Innocency may reach your
Ears and melt your heart with Petternal tenderness the
Sentence of Corporal Punishment to which i was by the Law
adjudged has been twice afflicted on me with Severity your
Petitioner Sir John Humbly Implores that his punishment
may be Accepted as some Small allonement for his Crime in
Consideration of the distresses of his Unhappy family and
that you will to leas to Reales him from Confinement that
he may be Enabled by honest and Industrious means to
Releive and Cherish his Wretched family and preserve them from
Perishing for want and in return your humble petitioner
will be Ever bound to pray for your honour and the
Worshipfull bench of Justices to his lives land

William Baker< no role >