To the Right Honourable Sir William
Thompson< no role > Knt . one of the Barons of
This Majesties Exchequer and Recorder
of the City of London

The humble Petition of Mary Hudson< no role > , a
Prisoner Confin'd in the Wood street Compter ,

Sheweth,

That your Petitioner is the Prosecutor against
one George Vaughan< no role > and Mary White< no role > otherwise Brown< no role > , who
were both Transported for divers Felonies and Robberies within the
space of a Twelve Month, and have both returned again from
their said Sentence of Transportation contrary to the Statute
made and provided for that purpose, and have of late
Committed divers Felonies and Robberies for which the
said Mary White< no role > otherwise Brown is now Confin'd in
Newgate for a Robbery Committed at the Sign of the Wheat
Sheaf , a Mercers on Ludgate Hill ,

That as Your Petitioner is the Prosecutor against the
said Mary White< no role > otherwise Brown and George Vaughan< no role >
for a Robbery which they both Committed (on the eleventh Day
of March last past) in the County of Middlesex for which your
Petitioner had a Warrant from the Worshipful Mr. Justice De
veil, which Warrant was given into two hands of one Barns
a Constable in the said County of Middlesex , but the said Barns
did not Execute the same, whereupon the said Mary White< no role >
otherwise Brown and George Vaughan< no role > did combine together
and laid an Action against your Petitioner by a Petitions
name, of whom Your Petitioner has no knowledge on purpose
to stifle the Prosecution, whereby your Petitioner is Confin'd
and cannot proceed in the said Prosecution.

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays