To
the Right [..] norable Slingsby Bethel< no role > Esqr . Lord
Mayor of the City [..] London & to the rest of the Honorable
Bench in the General Session of Goal delivery
Assembled

The Humble Petition & Prayer of John
[..] a prisoner in Newgate

Sheweth

that on the twenty eighth day of May 1755 your Petitioner
was committed Prisoner to his Majesties Goal of Newgate
by Virtue of an Or [..] Warrant from Sir Thomas Robinson< no role >
Knight then one of his Majesties principal Secretaries
of State thereby [..] the Keeper of the said Goal or his
deputy to receive certain in his Custody the Body of your
Petitioner for honorable Practices which said
Warrant or Order [..] date the twenty Eighth day of
May 1755 in the twenty Eighth year of his Majesties
Reign

Your Petitioner therefore most Humbly
prays that at this present Session of Goal
Delivery of Newgate holden for the City
of London and County of Middlesex
he may be tryed Bailed or discharged
[..] ant to the Statute in that Case
[..] Provided

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