Letter from Edward Fullbrook to an unidentified recipient :

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"In the matter of a petition filed on behalf Edward Fullbrook, formerly of Summer-town, St Giles', Oxford, and late of Woodcott, Southstoke, Oxford, Yeoman, being a person of unsound mind, and a prisoner in the gaol of Oxford Castle, in the County of Oxford. Whereas it appears to the court, by the record of William Henry Ashhurst, esq. one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said county, made and certified to the court by the said Justice of the Peace, according to the statue in that behalf, that the said prisoner is of unsound mind, and therefore incapable of taking the benefit of the said act in such manner as a person of sound mind might do ... it is ordered and appointed, that application shall be made to the court for the discharge of the said prisoner, at the court-house, in Portugal Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, on the 25th day of November 1839, at the hour of ten in the forenoon precisely, in order that the court may proceed to the discharge of said prisoner, if otherwise entitled thereto according to the true intent and meaning of the said act."--London Gazette, 1839 November 1.
Wade, S. Tracing your prisoner ancestors. page 42
Edward Fullbrook entered into an indentured apprenticeship for 7 years with Ambrose James Fullbrook under William Baxter of Oxford, printer, on August 21, 1824. He was named as an insolvent debtor in the London Gazette in November 1839 and December 1839.
Illustrated letter written by Edward Fullbrook, addressed to an unnamed Lord. Fullbrook complains of the four days he has spent in prison without bread or beer, deprived of music and prayer, while others are gaming and playing cards, contrary to the rules of the prison and the bible. In the last few lines of the letter, Fullbrook mentions "W.H. Ashurst," as the vicinity majistrate. Along the side of the page, Fullbrook includes a request for the Lord to visit his wife or to send for her to come to the Lord in Mapledurham. The letter is illustrated with various drawings, including one of the prison yard, labeled with various details such as the location of drains and doors.