| Description | Petition of Francis Knowles, gentleman., stating that he had lived sixteen years in the City in a house which he took from Thomas Wright, Keeper of the Northgate, and paid him twelve years rent beforehand and had spent more than £50 on the building. When he fell into some trouble, Wright sued him in the Court of Exchequer for present possession of the house, which bill the petitioner had answered, but Wright kept him a prisoner in the Castle till he had sureties to perform the Court's orders, these being Mr. William. Ince, Ald. Owen Hughes and Mr. John Johnson. Lately he had procured a warrant from the governor and came with a company of Castle soldiers and forcibly entered the petitioner's house and turned out himself, his wife and small children, whereupon they might have starved in the streets had it not been for the generosity of their neighbours. He asked that he might have his house and that the matter be tried in the Court of Exchequer, he having good sureties as aforesaid. |