DAVIS, John

National Archives, Kew CO48/42, 571

21 Middle Street

Cloth Fair

5^th July 1819

My Lord,

That your humble Petitioners are all Natives of Great Britain and that having scarcely half employment and some of your petitioners not that, your petitioners being informed that such of His Majesty's subjects that [you] shall think proper on application made to your Lordship are allowed to emigrate to His Majesty's settlements at the Cape of Good Hope and to have a certain proportion of land granted to them from the Crown, which if the case your petitioners would be very thankfull to accept, and your humble petitioners would be very thankfull to receive information how & in what manner they are to go out. As thro' trades being so [down] your petitioners have not the means of defraying their own expences for such a voyage, unless assisted by the Generosity of the Crown. Your petitioners would have no objection if a free passage should not be allowed to pay for the same by instalments as your Lordship may please to Direct. Your humble petitioners pray that your Lordship will take it into consideration and your petitioners as in Duty bound will ever pray for your Lordship

Your most humble and obedient servant

John DAVIS

Names and Ages &c of your Petitioners