To the Right Honoble Sr. Peter Delme< no role > Knt . Lord Mayor of
the City of London and to the Right Worshipful the Rest of his
Majesties Justices of the Peace for the Same City in their
General Quarter Sessions assembled.

The humble Petition and appeal of Samuel Lewis< no role > Joseph Dandridge< no role > This name instance is in set 2864.
Charles Jackson< no role > and Simon King< no role > Citizens and Inhabitants in Moorfields and Forestreet
near Bethlem in behalf of Our Selves and others our Neighbours.

Sheweth

That an Inquisition hath been lately taken before Coroner of the said City by
Virtue of a Writ of Ad Quod Dampnum lately sued out of his Majesties high Court of
Chancery by the Mayor Comonality and Citizens of London and your Peticoners are Informed
the Coroner hath Returned That it will be of no damage to our Sovereign Lord the King
nor to any other If his Majesty Should Grant Leave to the said Mayor Comonality and
Citizens to Inclose a Publick Footway lying and being between the Brick Wall
of the Garden of the Hospital of Bethlem on the South Part and Moorfield son
the North part in the Parish of St. Stephen Coleman Street leading from Moregate
Road to Brokers Row and if another publick Footway be made fifty foot
northward of the said Way to be Inclosed leading from and to the place
aforesaid Through Moorfield aforesaid.

That your Petitioners further Shaw That the said Way or space of
Ground so to be Inclosed as aforesaid was (amongst other things) by this late Majesty
King Charles the first by Letter Patents bearing date the fourteenth year of his said
Majesties Reign granted to the said Mayor Comonality and Citizens of London to be used
by them for Comon and Publick uses only asit had formerly been And for no other uses
and purposes whatsoever and it is by the said Letters Patents expressly provided
that his said Majesty his Heir sand Successors would not themselves Erector Cause
or Permit to be Erected in or upon the said way or Space of Ground (called in the said
Letters Patents by the name of Inner Moorfield) any new Messuages House or
Ereccons whatsoever or to that or the like Effects as by the said Letters
Patents relation being thereunto had more plainly and fully it may & will appear

That your Petitioners are advised That such Intended Inclosure of the said
Way or space of Ground lying and being in the said Inner Moorfields is Expressly
contrary to the Woods and Intention of his said Majesties said Grand thereof to the
said Mayor Comonality and Citizens of the said City and that your said Petitioners
Infringed by such Intended Inclosure.

Wherefore and for that your Petitioners are Inhabitants at Each End
of the said Road near Bethlem and in Fore street and very much grieved by the
said Inquisition and Return made to the said Writ of Ad Quod Dampnum
and in the Execution thereof do most humbly appeal to your Honour and
Worships from and against the said Inquisition Return and Proceedings
on the said Writ Pursuant to an Act of Parliament in such Cases lately
made and Provided) and Pray they may be heard touching the Premisses and have
such releif therein as to your Honour and Worships shall seem meet.

And Your Petitioners shall ever Pray Etc.