To the most Honourable Assembly the Commons house of Parliament.  
The humble Petition of diverse Hott-pressers of London,  
Most humbly  
Showing that whereas Sir George Douglas Knight, hath obtained a Patent and privy Seal from his Majesty, for and concerning the use of the Hott-presse. And moreover some Hott-pressers of London have combined themselves with the said Sir George to give him 6 s. 8 d. out of every 20 s. they shall earn, which is to be levied upon the Commonalty by their exhausting their prices for work done, Conditionally that the said Sir George shall suppress your petitioners from working. By this means your petitioners have been imprisoned in Newgate 15. days by S. Robert Heath then Recorder of London, notwithstanding he being a Counsel for Sir George Douglas against us, and no bail would be taken, though offered, and their houses broken open, their implements broken down, and their stuffs taken from them by violence, and yet detained, and can have no Legal trial for them, notwithstanding these stuffs were before pressed by the Deputies of Sir George, and are not with in the meaning of the Statute 5. of Edward the 6. as we are advised by our Counsel learned, by reason whereof your Petitioners have almost spent their whole estates to their utter undoing of themselves, their wives and children, (they being in number above 20. Families.) This being their only stay and means of maintenance.  

They most humbly therefore pray that you would be pleased, to call for our Petition already exhibited to this Honourable House, wherein our greevances are more at large laid open, and to take such order for our reliefs, as this Honourable Assembly shall think fit.   
And your Petitioners shall daily pray etc.