Honble Gentlemen ー  We officers of His Majestys ship Falcon, Prisoners under close confinement in Northampton Gaol; Beg leave to sollicit the Honorable council for a mitigation of their sufferings, by allowing them to partake of the same treatment experienced by the other prisoners at this place; as we are not conscious to have merited by any part of our behaviour an exclusion from the like indulgences, being neither principals nor advisers of the measures which has thrown us into this unhappy situation, We therefore flatter ourselves, when you Gentlemen, have taken the same into consideration, You will please to relax the severity of your orders concerning us; which will much oblige   Honble Gentlemen [&c.]

Robt Arnold Master
Justin Budd Gunner
Wm Broughton		Midshipmen
Philobeth Domett

[Northampton] the 16th Septr 1775

[Endorsed] Sept 22d 1775, Read by the major part of the Council & ordered that an Order go to the Keeper of the Gaol in Northampton, directing him to grant the said Robert Arnold, William Broughton & Philobeth Domett Liberation from close confinement, & that they be allowed to go any where, within the Limits of the Town of Northampton, & be under the Inspection of the Selectmen of said Town, who are authorized upon their or either of their presuming to pass the Limits of their parole, to order such of them into close confinement again, till further Order.

Perez Morton Dpy Secy