Sheweth, That your petitioner being about three score & ten yeares of age, formerly lived in good & credible condition, but aboute foure yeares since it pleased God to visit him with an ague & other sore sicknes, which continued on him aboute three yeares, in which time all his estate & meanes was spent, & consumed, & likewise being stricken with a palsie, soe that all his right side is uselesse, he now lyeth in a miserable condition not able to helpe himselfe in any thinge, his very bed being all rotten under him by reason of a laske that hath houlden him above three yeares, & his impotencie not being able to move himselfe: in this lamentable condition he is like to perish, unless some releefe be granted for him, for being destitute of both meanes & able frends to releeve him, he for a longe time this winter hath had noethinge but what pittifull neighbours have sent him, and likewise none are willing to be trobled to looke to him, & helpe him in this his loathsome condition, onely a kinswoman of his hath out of naturall affection thus far beene with him, but she beinge of small estate unable to releeve him & greeveinge to see his dayly miserie is discoraged & almost wearied out.