To the PARLIAMENT of the commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, assembled at Westminster.  
The humble Petition of Humphrey Bagaley  
showeth,  
THat your Petitioner, having been by a party of Horse taken out of Bed the 21th of May last, and delivered to a Company of Foot at St. James; and from thence carried to the Tower, where he was cast into a Prison-lodging commonly called nuns Bower, or The Hole, until he had submitted to pay an arbitrary fine, hath ever since continued a Prisoner, though not at all brought before any Officer military or civil to be examined. All which, as he really believes it to be unknown to this honourable House; so is he not ignorant, that it is against Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and the sixth Article of the present Government. And therefore being conscious to himself, that he hath not in any manner transgressed against any Law of the Land or the present Government,  
Humbly prays,  
He may be referred to a speedy legal trial, which is it he above all things desires, to the end his innocency may be manifested to the World. Or otherwise to release him with such consideration for the heavy charge and exspence be hath thereby been exposed to, as unto Equity and Justice doth appertain. And, as in duty bound,  
Your Petitioner shall pray, &c.