The cry of Newgate with the other prisons in and about London in which dismal holes and cels [sic] are imured about three hundred persons of the innocent people of God called Quakers, for no other cause but for their unspotted testimonies in God, held in clear consciences / to you magistrates, priests, and people of the city of London, and elsewhere whom these may concern, are these words uttered by R.C.