To Sir John Gonson< no role > , Knt

The Humble Petition of Mary Fedden< no role >

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was yesterday found guilty
of an Indictment for keeping a disorderly House in
Eagle Court in ye Strand , that as your Petitioners
Conviction appeared to be intirely owing to ye Spitelfield
Evidence of Some Lodgers of your Petitioners and
some Neighbours your Petitioner had ye Misfortune
to have differ'd with during the time she kept the Said
House, that your Petitioner had nothing charged upon her
but by hear say

Therefore humbly hopes that your Honour will be
pleased, according to your wanted Goodness, and as a
Congernation of the good Opinion the World has so
justly harbour'd of your Justice and Impartiality
recommend your Petitioner to ye Honourable Bench
and prays that your Endeavours may not be wanting
to mitigate her Punishment in Proportion to the
Weakness of ye Evidence, your Petitioner having
never been privy to any De Orders, charg'd to have been
Committed in her said House

And as In Duty bound your Petitioner Shall ever Pray Etc