To the Worshipfull Thos: Lane< no role > Esquire Chairman and
others his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex , now in their General Session of the Peace at
Hicks Hall in St. John Street in the Said County Assembled

The humble Petition of James
Bray< no role > brook.

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was at the Last Quarter Session of the
Peace for this County convicted of Keeping a Disorderly House , and the
Court was pleased to Fine him, and also Sentence him to Imprisonment

That your Petr. never intended to have given the Court the
unnecessary Trouble he did, had it not been for his Attorney, who advised on
Your Petr. to delay his Trial four Session to Session.

That by Means thereof and by the many expensive Applications
to the Court, and by your Petitr. being unhappily engaged in several
long and Expensive Law Suits, he is become greatly reduced in his
Circumstances.

That your Petr. is by his said Sentence punished with
a perpetrial Imprisonment by reason of his inability to pay the
said Fine of Fifty Pounds, and consequently most and his Days in
a Prison.

That you Petr. is truly Sensible and under the greatest
Contrition for his past Offences, and humbly hopes his further Behaviour
will conceive your Worships thereof

Your Petr. therefore with all Respect and
Subscribed most humbly prays that your Worships
will be pleased to take his Case into Consideration
and as Mercy is the greatest Charactistied of
Justices, that your Worship's would be pleased to
Mitigate his Fine and Sentence in Such Manner
as to your Worship shall Seem meet, And your
Petr by his further Conduct, will Shew how much
he deserves your Worships Lenity.

And your Petr as in Duty bound will
ever pray Etc

Jas. Braybrooke< no role > This name instance is in set 3582.