Third April

To the Rightble Honourable Micajah Perry< no role > Esqr. Lord Mayor
of the City of London adn the Rest of the Honorable Bench now
at Justice Hall in the old Bailey in the Suburbs of Said City

The Humble Prayer of Joseph Thomson< no role >
otherwise Nicholas Ockley< no role > a prisoner
in Newgate

Most Humbly Sheweth

That your Suppilcant was committed to
prison the Twelfth of this Instant fordefrauding
Edward Messenger< no role > of Three pounds Nine Shillings

Your Supplicant Meet Humbly prays
that he may be Tried Bailed or discharged
this Sessions as to this Honourable Court Shall
Seem Most Meet

And Your Petitioner as in Duty
bound will ever pray

his
Nicholas [mark] Ockley
Mark

Dated the 21st: Day
of February 1738
being the first day
of Sessions