The Worshipful Sir John Hawkins< no role >
Knight
& others
of His Majesty's Justices all third Sessions in Hicks's
Hall
Assembled The Humble Petition of John
Hatchman< no role >
.
Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner was on Saturday the 23d
[..]
October 1773. Committed by your Worships {them holding the
[..] said Course
to Clerkenwell
Bridewell
for Prophanely
Swearing in the Presence of your Worships An Offence
which he Acknowledges to highly Dishonourable to God
& Contemptable to your Authority & per which he is Heartly
Sorry and determined never to Committ again.
He having a Wife & Three Children whose
Lively Hoods are solely depending on his Indictments
Labour and who are now in grial want from his Confinement
he most Humbly asks Parent of God & your Worships and
Humbly Prays that he may be Released from the said prison
and shall endeavour the remaninder of his Life to avoid all
[..] auner of Offences of the like or any other Nature
John Hatchman< no role >