To the Right Honourable George Nelson< no role > Esquire Lord Mayor of the
City of London and the Rest of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
said City in the General Session of the Peace assembled.

The humble Petition and Appeal of Sir John Rous< no role > Baronet

Sheweth

That a certain paper Writing under the Hands of Thomas Matter< no role >
William Jupp< no role > John Miles< no role > and Thomas Clark< no role > bearing Date the
Eleventh Day of June 1766 setting forth that they having viewed the
Party Wall between the House occupied by William Ward< no role > Oilman and
the House lately occupied by Edward Woodcock< no role > Hosier situate on the
North Side of Fleet street (abutting on each Side on Poppins Alley) and
in the Parish of Saint Brides according to Notice given in Writing
for that Purpose [..] were of Opinion that the major Part
of the said Party Wall was in a ruinous Condition and that the
whale of the said Wall should be taken down and new built hath
been delivered into this Court as a Certificate of four Workmen
made in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament passed in the Eleventh
Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the first
Intituled An Act for the better regulating of Buildings and to prevent
Mischiefs that may arise by Fire within the Weekly Bills of
Mortality and other places therein mentioned.

That your Petitioner being the Owner of the House
mentioned to be occupied by the said William Ward< no role > and thinking
himself aggrieved by the said Paper Writing in Case the same
should be looked upon to be a Certificate made according to the said Act
of Parliament doth humbly appeal against the same.