Three petitions from those imprisoned for debt in Shrewsbury Gaol to Parliament on their own behalf and on behalf of all those imprisoned for debt.
Scope & Content:
Requesting redress that they may be able to ply their trades in order to support their families and repay their creditors. Many of the signatories recur in all the petitions
Petition of Thomas Pritchard supported by Val.t Howell, John Soward, Thomas Morris, Richard Atkinson and John Barnard to "The Honourable and Well Disposed Persons".
Scope & Content:
To be an object of charity, having lost the use of his right arm.