"The humble petition of George Druell, Lieutenant", addressed to King Charles I, recording Lieutenant Druell's service in the royalist cause "from the very first beginning thereof" and at Berwick, York, Lincoln, Beverley, Nottingham, and finally Oxford, under Colonel Hollyland – "in which service returning back to Nottingham he was unhappily taken Prisoner on the 10th of September [1644] and sent to London, where he was committed to the Marshallseas remayning in durance 20 weekes, & from thence removed to The Lord Peters house in London where he remayned for the space of 10 weekes & now hath happily (but with great dainger) made his escape"; aksing therefore that the King be pleased "to dispose him to such Imployment as to your Princely wisdome shall seeme fittest. or in the meane time to afford him some Meanes to subsist & attend your Majesties occasions", one page, integral leaf, docketed, minor wear, small 4to, undated