To the Right Honourable Sir William
Calvert< no role >
Knight
Lord Mayor
of the City of
London
The Humble Petition of Cornelius Batty< no role >
Clothworker
and Sally< no role >
his Wife
Sheweth
That your Petitioners Daughter
Mary Batty< no role >
an
Infant about Nine Years of Age was on Sunday the 5th. March
last ravished and debauched between Eleven and twelve
o' Clock at Noon by one
James Penroy< no role >
a Man about 23 Years
of Age who was then a Lodger in your Petitrs: House
That your Petitrs: said Daughter on the Friday following
being much out of Order and uneasy Your Petitrs. Inquired what
was the Matter with her (little thinking of the Unhappy
Occasion) when the Child confessed that Mr. James Panroy< no role >
when he was on the Bed in his Lodging called her out of the
next Room where she was dressing herself to bring him a Pint
of All and said he would give her the Money The Child
knowing he was considerably Indebted to her Parents readily
came to accept of the money when Mr. Penroy threw her upon
the Bed and threatned her life in Case she would not let him
have his Will with her And then Stop't his hand in her Mouth
to Prevent her calling for Assistance until she was almost
Stangled
That your Petitrs: for this abuse took the said Panroy
before Mr. Justice Withers who Committed him to New Prison
upon the Child's Affidavit and he has since been Committed
to Newgate
where he now lies to receive his Trial at the
next Ensuing Sessions
That your Petitrs: have had the Child examined by Docto [..]
Wathen
a Man Midwife
and Mrs. Mackdemour a Midwife
who
both said she had been abused by a Man and that she was
very foul
That your Petitrs: are intirely unable to carry on an
Indictment for this Cruel usage of their Daughter having a large
Family of Children and nothing to depand upon but their hard
labour
Wherefore your Petrs. most humbly pray your
Lordship to give them such releif and assistance
as in this Crual and Inhuman affair to your
Lordship shall seem meet
And your Lordship's Petrs. shall evar pray Etc.