To the Right Honble Sr. John Salter< no role > Knt . Lord Mayor
of the City of London and the rest of his Majesties Justices of
the Peace for the said City at their General Quarter Sessions
of the Peace Assembled

We the Churchwarden and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of saint
Mary of Stratford Bow in the County of Middlesex Do hereby desire that Thomas
Hughes< no role > now a Prisoner in the Poultry Compter who was Committed a
considerable time agoe for begetting any Hall with Child of a Male
Bastard Child which was born in the said Parish and is now living and
Chargeable to the same may be discharged he being in very poor
and Mean Circumstances and utterly unable to give Security to Indempnify
the said Parish from the said Charge Wittness our hands the twentieth
day of October in the Year of our Lord 1740

Wittness
Thomas Martley< no role >

John Childe< no role > Churchwarden

Jo: Sedgwick< no role >
Griffin Crane< no role > }
Overseers of the
Poor