To The Honorble Sir John Gonson< no role > Chairman , & the rest
of the honorble. bench of Justices of his Majesties Peace Etca.

Edward Gregory< no role > aged 83 Years, prisoner
for Debt in the Gatehouse Westminster

Most humbly Sheweth
That your honor's Petitr. has been herein confinement Since 17
August last past in which Space of time all my friends have left me
I am now in the most deplorable condition imaginable for since 25 May
Fr: Geary< no role > Keeper has turned me on the Common Side, a place worse than
the Spanish inquisition it wanting Several material repairs Such as
the plaistering over head to be help'd Scarsely one can go in to it without pounds
weights falling on their heads, a Continual dust falling down when any
one passes over head, one of the windows sd. Fr. Geary has lissened by a half
alltho, hill barefaced by endeavours affirm that he has made a new window in it
whereas Sd. window was made when the Goal was built, as may be easily
seen when compared with the windows adjacent thereto, at sd. window
there's a Chimney of a Shade all most in a levell wt. Sd. window, which fills
sd. Common Side with a continued Smoak very insufferable that colipses
that very little light that's therein. Sd. Shade is a meer imposition & in
fringement on the privileges of the Jail as well as on the Common passage
Likewise Sd. Fr. Geary, openly & avowedly, keeps me from the privilege
of the begging box; which in all Goals is allowed to the Debtors of ye Comon
side, and he allows people to be partakers of sd box, who by all appearance
have no need of it & who by on the masters side Etca this he persists in
alltho' I have demanded my dues Several times of Sd. Geary, or his deputy

Wherefore your honor's petitr. most humbly implore's your
honor's protection in this imposition, that You would be pleased to take
into consideration this my wretched state, & as far as is consistant with
Justice & Equity you would order & command sd. Geary to give me my
just dues which he has to long kept from me. That sd common Side may
be repaired, that I or any who come those may n't be indangerously
being Knocked in the head, or Smoothered in the ruins of a wold
plaistering Etca. And that the Clause of an act of Parliament Car:
may be put up in a publick place in the Jail, which sd. Honble.
Court ordered Sd. Geary to put up sometime ago. & which he promised
to do, in his petition of 22d. June last (2d. day of Qr. Sesso.) which is
contempt of Sd. Honble. Court he has left undone, not has he acted
according to any promise he made in Sd petition. Etca. That felono
may n't be allowed to come near, nor drink, & nor riot before my door
place in all ages, that has belonged to Sd. Drs. Common Side, till forcbd,
Fr: Geary< no role > has made new Customs, which before a Lord Chief Justice he