To the Right Honble the Lord
Mayor and the Rest of his Majesty
Justices of the Peace for the City
of London at Guildhall in their
General Quarter Sessions Assembled
The humble Petition and Appeal of the
Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor
of the Parish of Saint Matthew Friday
Street in the City of London
Sheweth
That the Right Honble
Willm. Beckford< no role >
Esqr
. Lord
Mayor
and
Francis Cokayne< no role >
Esqr
: two of his Majestys Justices
of the Peace in and for the said City of London
by an Order under
their respective hands and Seals bearing date the 23d. day of
December 1762
directed to the Church Wardens and Overseers
of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Gregory by Saint Pauls
London Did thereby require them to remove and Convey
Matthew Pryce< no role >
Patience< no role >
his Wife
and
Elizabeth Wilmot
Pryce< no role >
their Daughter
aged about eight Years into the said
Parish of Saint Matthew Friday Street
.
That Your Petitioners apprehend and are
advised that they are greatly aggrieved by the said Order of
Removal And
Therefore Your Petitioners humbly
Appeal against the same and pray that
this Honourable Court will make such
Order therein as shall be just & reasonable
And Your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc