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mitted to jail, and kept there until finally brought to re- 

 ceive his horrible sentence; and that (athing theretofore 

 wholly unheard of) his then printer, Thomas Han- 

 sard ; his then publisher, Richard Bagshaav; 

 and even a bookseller named John Budd, were all, 

 for the self-same cause, prosecuted in like manner, 

 and all punished by imprisonment ; so that, all persons 

 pursuing the business of printing, or that of publishing, 

 became terrified at the thought of printing or publish- 

 ing the writings of your humble Petitioner, who had 

 to endure many and great disadvantages arising from 

 this terror, which caused an augmentation in the 

 expense of putting forth his literary labours, and other 

 grievous injuries which he will not here enumerate. 



190. That, your Petitioner, who had long lived in the 

 country at the time, and who had a wife, and a family 

 of six small children, was put into a part of the jail 

 allotted to felons and to persons convicted of uri" 

 natural crimes ; that, on the day after the imprison- 

 ment of your Petitioner commenced, one of the former 

 was taken out to be transported ; and, that, in a few 

 days later, several of the latter were taken out to be 

 placed in the pillory, and then brought back again to 

 endure imprisonment in the same place that had been 

 allotted to your Petitioner, but imprisonment, he 

 beseeches your Majesty to be pleased to observe, of 

 much shorter duration ! 



191. That your humble Petitioner, in order to 

 avoid society like this, and to be able to avail himself 



