To the Right Honourable Wm. Benn< no role >
Esqr
Lord Mayor
of the City of London
and others his Majestys Justices
of the Peace for the said City at their General Quarter
Session Assembled
The Humble Petition & Appeal of the Overseers of the
Poor of the Liberty of the Fields
in the County of Middx.
Sheweth
That by an Order under the Hands
of theand Seals of the Rt.
Honrble
Wm Benn< no role >
Esqr
Lord Mayor
and
Thomas Rawlinson< no role >
Esqr
two of his Majties. Justices of the Peace
for the City of London
and
libertys thereof (one being of the Quorum) bearing Date the
tenth day of October
[..] Instant
Elizabeth Metcalf< no role >
wife
of
John Metcalf< no role >
who is run away from her and their Two
Children
Elizabeth< no role >
Aged Six years &
William< no role >
Aged three
Years were removed from the Parish of Saint Sepulchres
London to the Liberty of the Rolls
in the County of Middx
as the Places of their last legal Settlemt. whereby your
Petrs. conceive themselves Aggrieved and against the
said Order do Appeal
Your Petrs. therefore humbly pray that the
Benefit of the said Appeal be saved unto them
and that the hearing and determining thereof may
be adjourned to the next General Quarter
Session of the Peace to be held for the said City
And Yor. Petrs. shall ever Pray Etc.
Wm. Chimmons< no role >
agt.
for the Rolls Libty.}