The Humble Peticoner the severall Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Bottolph
without Bishopsgate Lodnon whose names are hereunto Subscribe on behalfe of themselves
and others of the Inhabitants of the said Parish.

Sheweth

That your peticoners at the Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for this City at the Guildhall
on Monday the [..] 2th. day of January Last Exhibited a Peticon Signed by severall of the Principall
Inhabitants of [..] Parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate London Setting forth that the severall
Persons therein named having served their severall and respective Offices of Church Wardens & Overseers had
neglected or refuse to do what was therein Alled [..] against them, Upon reading the said Peticon It was
then Ordered by the Court that the said severall Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish
of St: Botolph without Bishopsgate particularly named in the said Peticon be served with Copyes of the said
Peticon And that the said severall & respetive Churchwardens & Overseers named in the said Peticon
should deliver into the Court at the next Succeeding [..] ssions of the Peace to be held for this City at the Guildhall
London their severall Reasons & Answers to the severall Allegations Alledged against them in the sd Peticon
That such further Order might be made therein as to the Court should seem just and fitting; That in.
Pursuance of such Order the severall Churchwardens & Overseers who were living & continued in the said
Parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate were served with Copyes of the sd. Peticon severall of which Church
Wardens & Overseers Pending that Order had & Obtained or had procured for them about 6 or 8 of the
Inhabitants to [..] together & at their several Meetings pretended they had perused & Examined severall
of the Accounts of the Churchwardens & Overseers who were served with the said Order of Court and Copy
of the said Peticon And after such pretended Perusall or Examinacon the said severall and respective
Churchwardens and Overseers had and Obtained or had Procured for them the Hand of Sir Edward Becher< no role >
Knight and Alderman of the Ward of Bishopsgate in which Ward the said Parish of St. Botolph without
Bishopsgate London doth Lye Signifying. his Approbacon and Allowing of the said Accounts to be just & true
without any Not [..] given to any or either of your Peticoners of such. pretended perusall Examinacon
or Approbacon, [..] with standing severall [..] Money raised for the relief of the poor have by the said
Churchwarden [..] Overseers been misapply [..] Converted to other Uses, as by the said Accounts
reference being thereunto had will Appear, To the great Prejudice of your peticoners adn others of the
Inhabitants of the said Parish

Your Peticoners Conceiving themselves aggrieved most Humbly Appeal to this Honble
Court against the said Allowance of the said Accounts and Pray this Court would Please to Order
and Street that the said severall and respective Churchwardens & Overseers whose Accounts
are passed as aforesaid do Produce the same to this Court Together with their severall
Books of Rates that such further Order may be made therein as to this Court shall
seem meet

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