Continued Thursday 12 December 1776

Relations and Friends line at too great a distance for your
Petitioners to enjoy their instructive conversation without
being disobedient to your Orders.2dThat to deprive
them to that beneficial happiness which the generally of
your Petitioners eagerly desire and hope to be indulged in
would be leave them entirely to themselves and exposed to
the ungovernable dictates of unbridled Resolutions.3d That
your Petitioners Submit to your Worships whether the exercise they
can have within the Walls of the Hospital can be equal to that
received from a Walk in the Country or so conducive to Health
4thThat your Petitioners beg leave to observe that they
do not feel that Alacrity to their respective Labour they formerly
did feel owing to a continual confinement5thThat
Your Petitoners submit to your Worships whether the.
Punishing whatever Individuals may be found offending
against your Orders will not be sufficient, or whether the
Punishing the whole for a few may not discourage them from
struggling to do well. That your Petitioners sincerely
crave Pardon for all their past Offences as likewise for any
this then fervent Petition or prayer may give Protesting they
wish to enjoy the smiles of their governors and Benefactors and
not to Offend Therefore relying upon the sincerity of their
Intentions and Promising to have a very Strict guard upon
their behaviour for the future they are prompted to hope this
general Punishment will prove to be but a tempory one to
bring them to a just since of their duly and should they be so
happy as to gain belief with your Worships and by that Obtain
their former indulgence of Freedom. It is Ordered that
the said Petition be rejected.

Upon Reading a Report from the House Committee
bearing date the 29th. day of November last under the Hands
of Nathaniel Thomas< no role > Esqr . Aldn . treasurer Henry Cranke< no role > Esqr .
Auditor General Philip Grafton< no role > Esqr . Samuel Read< no role > Esqr . &
Saml. Hall< no role > Esqr . in the words and figures following Vizt. In
Pursuance of an Order of Court of the 21st. November
Instant whereby it was referred to this Committee to consider the
Petition of William Grinsell< no role > late one of the Artsmasters of this