To the Right Honble the Lord Mayor & the Rest of the Justices of the
Peace for the City of London at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for
the same City Assembled

The humble Petition of the President Treasurer &
Governors of St. Bartholomews Hospital London

Sheweth

That the sd Hospital issutuate within the Parish of St.
Bartholomew the Less, And the Government there of under
the Lord Mayor & Court of Aldermen, belongs to your of
Peters; and the sd Hospital nor your Peter in regard then
were ever used to be rated to the Parish Rates.

That by the Poors Rate of the sd Parish for three
months from Mictras last Your Peter are charged by
the Name of the Mayor Comonalty & cityens of the City of
London Governors of the House of the Poor Commonly
called St Bartholomews Hospital near West Smith field
London of the Foundation of King Henry the Eighth
for lands on which stood Tenements & houses by them
pulled down & demolished, the Tenants of Which were
used to be charged in the Poor Rate, & Qur £8:19:0

That the said Houses were pulled down by your
Peters for the Enlargement of the Hospital & for the
more commondious Reception of a greater Number of
Poor within the Hospital

That your Peters apprehend themselves to be
aggrieved thereby and are adoised & humbly Submitt
to the Judgment of this Honouiable Court that they
ought not at all to be Charged to the sd Rate in
Respect of the said Lands.