Letter 2068

[fol. 138] ffrom the masters side Newgate March 15 1716 Honoured Sr I am Loath to trouble any of my worthy friends or acquaintances here unless upon very necessary and pressing occasions and much less you who have been so instrumental in procuring to me those Late advantages I enjoy’d but now that I am again brought under worse circumstances that ever I get Leave again to write to you The reason of my misfortune is now so fully known to those concernd in the Government that I need not repeat them and wherein I have served the Government is so fresh in every ones mind that I shall not trouble you with the account of it I had reason to hope that not only my crime might have been extenuated by what I have done but I might have procured at Least my pardon especially since at first my innocence was such as of itself might have procured favour (but this with all due submission) And now dear SR to write seriously to you may I beg youl take unto your sorrows consideration the sad condition whereinto I am now reduc’d my Imployment ruined at home (by the confusions which hapned in my Country which was the true reason of my betaking my self to this course) my wife and family for what I know in a starving condition my self oblig’d to such charges as though things were in a prosperous condition I am not able to bear and oblig’d to undergo such hardship as must needs bring me into a most pityous condition unless you (upon whom I chiefly rely) shall be pleasd to be such moyen as I may be thereby relievd from it. May I therefore most humbly beg and crave to use your utmost interest to relieve me from those difficulty’s and procure my pardon and I shall be most willing to pay that most humble and due Submission they shall be pleasd to Demand of me I expect your most speedy return for untll that I shall remain here in a most miserable condition being ( in whatever state and circumstances) always as ever Your most devoted humble servt Pa: Blair