To the Rt Honrble Sr Richard Hoare< no role > Knt Lord Maior
of the City of London and to the Rt Worpll the Rest of her
Majesty Justices of the Peace in the General quarter sessions
assembled

The humble petition and Appeal of the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the poor of the parish of St Martin Ludgate
London

Sheweth

That by virtue of a Warrant under the hands & seals of avo of her maties
Justices of the peace within this City (one being of the Quorn) bearing date the
Sixteenth Day of June last one Sarah Bainbridge< no role > wife of William
Hainbridge< no role > with her daughter ann were removed from the parish of
St Austin London unto the said parish of St Martin Ludgate alloadging
the said parish to be the place of the last legal Settlement of the
said William Bainbridge< no role > the husband

That your Peticonrs doubt not but to prove that the said
William Bainbridge< no role > never had any legal Settlement in yor
Peticonrs said Parish of St Martin Ludgate whereby they
conceive themselves aggreived by the said Warrant and
Judgment of the said two Justices and do humbly Appeal
to your Honr & Worpps therefrom

Your Peticoners therefore most humbly pray your
Honr and Worpps will be pleased to hear them in the
prmisses and that the Churchwardens and Overseers
of the poor of the said Parish of St Austins may
appeare before you and hear and abide the dece [..]
of your Honr. and Worpps touching this Appeal

And your Petitionrs shall ever Pray