21st. Octr. 1754
To the right Worshipfull the Chairman and the Rest
of the Justices of the Court of Oyer and Terminer
and
general Gaol Delivery of Newgate
now assembled at
Hick's Hall
in Saint John Street
in and for the County
of Middlesex
,
The Petition of Peter Grison< no role >
a Prisoner
in
Newgate
or a Habeas Corpus,
Sheweth,
That yr. Petr. was Indicted by a Contrivance of
Mary< no role >
his wife
who by the name of
Mary Hounslow< no role >
Spinster
falsly Swore an Assault and Battery against him and thereupon
had him before
John Fielding< no role >
Esqr
. who Comitted him to
New
Prison
Clerkenwell
the Both Day of April 1754 and after
he had Appeared and Pleaded thereto, remov'd him by Habeas
Corpus to the Kings Bench Prison
to prevent his Coming hereto
his Trial But yr. Petr. Complain'd of the Oppression to and
was order'd by the Court of King's Bench
to be brought to the
Custody of the Sheriff of Middlesex
on an other Habeas
Corpus and he was accordingly brought for that Purpose in
July Sessions when the Court at the Old Bailey
referred him
to Bail. That yr. Petr. is a poor Foreigner, has no Bail, and
must Parish under Suit Oppression if he be not brought to
his Trial forthwith, this Sessions, Which Justice he has been
hither to defeated of by indirect and very undue Practices
of Persons whose Duty is the Contrary.
Your Petitioner therefore humbly Prays for
a Rule of this Court to be brought to Trial
forthwith: Whereof She has due Notice.
And yr. Petr.(as in Duty bound) Shall Ever Pray Etc.