To the Right Honble Sr Charles Peers< no role > Knt Lord Mayor of the City of
London and to the Right Worpll the rest of his Majestys Justices
of the peace in the Generaral Quarter Sessions of the peace Assembled

The humble Petition of the Church Wardens & Overseers
of the poor of the Severall parishes of St Giles without
Cripplegate St Botolph without Algate St Andrew Wardrobe
St Katherine Coleman St Andrew Holborn St Sepulchres
St Brides Allhallows on the Wall St Botolph Aldersgate
and St Botolph without Bishopsgate.

Sheweth

That your Petitioners are very much Over burthened
with Poor and not able to raise Sufficient Sumes of money amongst
themselves to releive them Notwithstanding their Assessments
are greater than heretofore. Yet the Charge of the poor is far
about their Assessments as the same upon their Examinacon hath
divers times appeared to Several Worthy Aldermen of this City
appointed to hear the same And their Poor daily encreasing upon
them their Said parishes Some of them lying near the Suburbs
and others of them in the Suburbs of this City.

Their humble Petition therefore unto your good
Honour and Worships that you will be favourably pleas'd
to grant unto them the Contributions of other parishes within
this City for and towards the releiving the poor as they have
formerly had which are Particularly here undermenconed
or Such farther Allowance as to Your Honr & Worpps Shall See in
meet

£
St Giles Cripplgate90
St Botolph without Algate50
St Andrew Wardrobe40
St Katherine Coleman12
St Andrew Holborn7
St Sepulchres44
St Brides15
Allhallows on ye Wall12
St Botolph Aldersgate15
St Botolph Bishopsgate60

And they shall ever pray
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