After my humble service to your selfe and all our good Friends this cometh by a trusty Friend of mine how[2] can declare to you of my great griefe and misery here in prison by how I would desire you to send me Twenty four ounces of Gold and as for all the rest you have in your custody shall desire you for to keep in your custody for it is all we have to support us in time of want; but I pray you to deliver to the bearer hereof the above mentioned sum, hows[3] name is Andrew Knott.[4] And in so doing you will oblige him how is your SARAH S K KEEDE the bare hereof can informe you more at large. [Footnote 2: Who.] [Footnote 3: Whose.] [Footnote 4: See doc. no. 85.] _81. Petition of Sarah Kidd. July 25, 1699._[1] [Footnote 1: Mass. Archives, vol. 62, no. 317.] To his Excell'cy the Earle of Bellomont, Capt. Gen'll and Governor of his Maj'tys Collonies of the Massachusetts Bay in N. Engl'd etca. and to the honorable the Councill. The Peticion of Sarah Kidd humbly Sheweth That Your Petitioners husband Capt. Wm. Kidd, being comitted unto the Comon Goale[2] in Boston for Pyracie, and under Streight durance, as Alsoe in want of necessary Assistance, as well as from Your Petitioners Affection to her husband humbly pray's that your Excell'cy and Councill will be pleased to permitt the sd Sarah Kidd to have Communication with her husband, for his reliefe; in such due Season and maner, as by your Excelle'y and Councill may be tho't fitt and prescribed, to which Your Petitioner shall thankfully conforme herSelfe and ever pray etca. SARAH S K KIDD Boston 25 July 1699. [Footnote 2: Gaol, jail.] _82. Lord Bellomont to the Board of Trade. July 26, 1699._[1] [Footnote 1: Public Record Office, C.O. 5:860, no. 64; _Commons Journal_, XIII. 19-21. The original is endorsed as received Sept. 20.] BOSTON, 26th July 99. _My Lords,_ I gave your Lordships a short Account of my taking Capt. Kidd, in my Letter of the 8th Instant:[2] I shall in this Letter confine myselfe wholly to an Account of my Proceeding with him. [Footnote 2: Doc. no. 77.]