To the Worshipful William Mainwaring< no role >
Esquire and to the rest of the Justice now
Assembled at the Sessions house on
Clerkenwell Green

The humble petition of Richard
Cock< no role > Indicted by the Name of John
Cox< no role >

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was this day unfortunatly
Convicted for making an Assault on one Sarah Bullock< no role >
who sometimes goes by the Name of Fisher< no role > and who
is a person of very bad Charater and is a Companion
to the Horse Granadiers and is fired five pounds

That your Petitioner was the Chief person in
playing the Engion and in Covent Garden and in Saint
Martins Street at the time of the late Riot and has ever
since been ill and been rendered wholly incapable of
Acquiring his livelyhood and being obliged to goe to
Westminster Infermory and Saint Georges Hospital
having been deprived of his Sensens and was afterwards
given over by the Doctors as uncurable and his
Limbs also was taken from him and your Petitioner
was afterwards obliged logo to Chelsea Workhouse
for Charity and that your Petitioner is not yet recovered

That your petitioner has offered to pay
the said prosecution two Guineas as a Compensation
by paying a Weekly Sum which is entirely for your
Petitioner to do any otherwise which she has refused to accept

Wherefore your petitioner most hbly pray
Your Worships to alter the said punishmt

And your petr shall ever pray Etc

Rd Cock< no role >