The Pet of ye Church
Wardens & Overseers
of St Nicholas Cole
abby London
1693

To the Right Honoble. Sr. John Fleete< no role > Knt Lord
Major of the Citty of London and to the rest of their
Maties Justices of ye Peace Att this Prsent Sessions assembled

The humble peticon of the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the poore of the parish of St Nicholas
Cole abby London

Sheweth

That One Elizabeth Day< no role > Wd. being a lodger in the Pish of St Giles without Cripplegate She was
sent from thence to the Pish of St John Baptist Dowgate London where she had him a housekeep
6 or 7 yeares buried her Husband the no & Afterward for about 3 yeares She lodged in the sd
Pish of St Nicholas Coleabby with her mother who likewised lodged att The house of Tho:
Russell< no role > a Warden there neither the [..] her mother & were ever. housekeeps there to yor.
of Knowledge yett the 22th of July last by want from the now Recorded Sd Robert Jefferys< no role >
she was sent from the said Pish of St John Baptist to the said Pish of St Nicholas Coleabby
to be provided for And for as much as the said Elizabeth Day< no role > was never a housekeep
in the said Pilly of St Nicholas Coleabby & was 6 yeares before a housekeeper in the
said Pish of St John Baptist

your petit therefore most humbly pray This honoble Court that the said
Elizabeth Day< no role > May by An Order of this Honoble. Court be Seat back
to the said parish of St John Baptist Dowgate London where she was
a housekeeper see Long and last an Inhabitant) To be pvidd for

And they as bound shall pray etc.

St Nich Coleabbey