[BNP/E3, 114¹ – 81a]

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Sir,

I, Willyum Jinks Esk, ov London, England, abovementioned below, humbly begs Your Honour to hinsert this in your s teeming paper.

This is to certainify thet were ass sum ill intuitioned puss ons has due nigh this the culty sea nou the in stinks ov a gent. an much less has anone re spectable ov consendling nation for the {…} fill ins ov a gentleman and as his dam selvs knot gentlemenn butt fulls – has I hav saying, {…} this sort ov anny mauls thet cant bee quite butt muss bee hup too sum wroten planks having gon found ered day him awl the bless head yeer – I meen to say ware ass sum pusson are pussons al ont this hear town thet aint not got a bit ov scents – wear ass thees damm won ore more nau the heels ave brootality ass hurted has well has mend acre housely hand falls lily in sinuous hated has ow

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myself Mist her W. Jinks, Esk, sum time then ants ov Mary Jane Court, Thief Alley, Longdone, England, has been impraeasoned hin jail, that I the said Mr. Jinks a 4 mentioned and spoken ov above was in gale fore 7 days_____

This dokiemeant his has I has said summer wear above, too gertyfy thet such a staid ment is a lie hand is rummaging (I means, dam aging) to my oner. Such a lie his, I reap eats, hun true and slavanderous, because I was in jail only 6 days 23 ours. Which proves those people liers. Wear 4 I sets forth this happy daird, and has the honer to sine.

Given, as ye sea, hundre my hand

W. Jinks Esq