Whittle, Thurston

To His Excellency the Governer /
Lord Charles H. Summerset Comm=der /
in Chief of His Majesty’s Forces /
Cape of Good Hope . 7+c .7+c. 7+c. /
The Memoralist Thurston Whittle Most /
Respectfully therwith, that a Person /
Named Ja\s./ Tho\s. / Erith. became in the Course /
of time indebted to your Memoralist, in /
the Sum of Ninety four Rix Dollars two /
Shillings. And after a long Procrasted /
Law suit he obtain a Sentence for the /
above Amount against the Said Erith. /
in about April 1822. _ Since that Period /
your Memoralist has been constantly employ /
in endevouring to get the Money by every /
legal Measure, but the deceit and Rogery /
of Erith baffles all Law, and I am at /
this time a Larger creditor than at first /
having paid all Law. Expences __ the /
Court of Landros+s and the Agent of the /
Sequestrator has done every thing that I /
believe could be done for the recovery of /
the Sum, but tho’ the impos+sibility of /
getting at his property (he having Secreted /
nearly the whole) it is next to impos+si=bility /
to recover the Sum. ____ Your Memoral=ist /
can fully prove that he has had fre=quently /
the means of paying the Amount /
and at this time has plenty of Money ___ /
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Your Memoralist therefore most /
humbly begs that Your Excellency /
will be pleased to take it into your /
Consideration and order the Confine=ment / of Ja\s./ Tho\s. / Erith. in the Town
Prison, as he at this time is at Large /
and frequently Making large Purcheses /
in this Market for Ready Money. /

and your Memoralist will ever /
in duty bound to pray. /