Folio 66. Memorial for David Bruce. 'There was a petition given in for David Bruce...

Folio 66. Memorial for David Bruce. 'There was a petition given in for David Bruce in conjunction with many others representing their miserable condition occasioned by their long and repressive confinement and humbly craving his Royal Highness would be graciously pleased to allow them to remove out of the dominions, not to return without liberty. At the same time there was another petition presented for the said David Bruce and two others representing some favourable circumstances which could not have been insert[ed] in the first petition and particularly, that the said David Bruce was not full 19 years of age, that he was sickly and could bring good vouchers of his peaceable and quiet deportment etcetera. May it therefore please your Lordship to [?] move the said petition, and in case from the crowd of more weighty affairs these petitions cannot be considered, that your Lordship in the meantime may allow him more freedom than what he presently has in the prison of Newgate, where a spotted fever is now raging'.