To the Worshipful Justices at Hicks
Hall Assembled

The Humble Petition of William Gardner< no role >

Sheweth

That your Petitioner most Humbly Acknowledge
the Instness of his Sentence and hopes through Compossion
for his Distressed Wife who has been ill Eight Weeks with an
Inward Complaint Attended with a Fever and is not yet
Perfectly Referred and whose Support Intirely defend on
your Petitioner

That your Petitioner has been Married Sixteen Years the
29th. of this Month had fourteen Children and was never in
any trouble before having by his Industry Paid every one their
own and kept himself Intirely free from any Prosecution till
this Unfortunate Affair happend

That your Petitioners has drew for Mr. Trentcack at the
Queens Head in Gray's Inn Lane Years and is now in
her Service and if Confined according to his Centring will
Prove the ruin of Sum and his Distress Wife.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly
Implores your Worships will he pleased
to take his unhappy Situation in your
Consideration and Afford him such relief
as in your Great Wisdom shall seem meet

And your Petitioner with his Distressed Wife
as in Duty bound will ever Pray