Hicks Hall

To his Majesties Justices of the Peace of the County of Middlesex
at their Buarter Session Assembled

The Humble Petition of Ralph 3s. 4 Robinson< no role > Thomas
3s. 4 Hargrove< no role > and John Matthews< no role > 3.4 Conwicted for Assaulting
William Pepper< no role > and Sarah< no role > his Wife

Sheweth

That it was proposed by the Prosecutors and their Friends
that if your Petitioners would pay them five Pounds they would
Accept of is in full Satisfaction of the said Assault But your
Petitioners being so Unfort under as to think themselves rather
Aggrieved and that they Should be Acquitted on the Try al Refused
to Comply with it

That your Petitioner Thomas Hargrove< no role > hath in wife and
Child Utterly umprovided for and must Starve if he be Contiuned
in Prison.

That the Prosecutor William Pepper< no role > hath Declared Since
the Consiction that he would Fergive Hargrove

That your Petitioner Ralph Robinson< no role > hath a Wife and
Child and his Wife is now very Big with another Child and in all
Probability will Lose her Life with Grief if his Fine is not
Mitigated being incapable at present of paying more than Ten
Pounds

That your Petitioner Mathews hath an Antient Mother
of good Life and Conservation who is Inconsolable on Account
of her Sons Misfortune and is Willing to raise Ten Gaine as
for the Prosecutors being all the Money she can Raise

That had your Petitioners been so fortunate as to have
paid the five pounds as a pecuniary Satisfaction for these
Prosecutions they would have been Extremely Sorry with
Themselves if they had so Ill Treated the Prosecutors as appeared
by their Evidence

Where fore your Petitioners most Humbly Beg
your Worshipe that their Punishment may be
Mitigated as to your Worships Shall Seem Meet