To the Right Honble Sr William Humfreys< no role > Knight and Bart
Lord Mayor of the City of London and to the Right Worshipfull
the Justices of the Peace for the same City Assembled at the
Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the said
City at the Guildhall thereof

Most humbly Sheweth

The humble Peticon of Thomas Flower< no role > John Croucher< no role > Thomas Sherly< no role > John
Ricqueburg Francis Dutton Wm Francis Edmond< no role > Morgan Valentine Harding
Matthew Sharpe< no role > Joseph King< no role > Anne Bond< no role > Elizabeth Gigg Daniell Ellwell John
& zer John Gumby Joseph Whitchurch< no role > Anne Forestreet William Cotterell< no role > Thomas
Cock< no role > John Edmond's Thomas West< no role > Henry Luff< no role > Anne Semper John Roper< no role >
Charles Tracey John Holland< no role > William Moseley< no role > William Rogers< no role > John Willis< no role >
William Robinson< no role > Elizabeth Newton< no role > Hugh Boseley Andrews Isaac Hill< no role > Mary
Thomas< no role > Mary Terry< no role > Mary Knight< no role > Rebecca Johes Richard Pooley< no role > John White< no role >
Richard Wilson< no role > Darcas Porter< no role > Widdow Anthony Leonard< no role > James Wyke
William Henshaw< no role > Benjamin Beard< no role > Jonathn: Butter John Carver< no role >
and diverse widdows Orphan's and others whose husbands and Fathers
were Killed and Maimed in the late Fire which happened in Thames Street
Tower Street and other parts in the parish of St. Dunstan in the East

Most humbly Sheweth

That on the thirteenth of January last there happened a Suddain and Terrible Fire
in Thames Street Tower Street and other parts in the parish of St Dunstan in the East in
the City of London which in three days time burnt downe and Consumed upwards of fifty
Dwelling houses besides a great number of Warehouses and vaults full of Merchandizes
amongst wch were many houses and effects of your Peter whose effects and Substances were
utterly Consumed and distroyed thereby their whole loss amounting unto the sume of

[..] And by this said Calamity yor Peter who before lived
in a Reputable manner are now reduced to extreame want and poverty That your Petrs &
Familyes have hither to been preserved from starveing by private Charityes.

Yor Petrs therefore most humbly pray yor Worshipps
the prmisses Considered to Certifie the same to the Right
Honble the Lord high Chancellor of Great Britaine to the
end your Peticoners may obtaine his Maties most gracious
Letters Patents by was of Breife for a Colleccon of the
Charity of his Maties Loveing Subjects for the Releife
of your Peter and their Familyes in this their great Distress
and Deplorable Condicon

And yor Peticoners as in duty bound shall ever pray Etc