To the Right Honourable George Nelson< no role > Esqr . Lord Mayor of the City of
London and the rest of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the same
City in their General Quarter Session Assembled

The Humble Petition of the Churchwardens and Overseers
of the Poor of the Parish of St. James Clerkenwell in the
County of Middx.

Sheweth

That David Williams< no role > an Inhabitant of the same Parish is
lately become Poor and unable to maintain himself so that he is
now in the workhouse and kept at the Charge of the same Parish
being Old and unable to work

That Edward Williams< no role > of Fleet Lane near the Fleet market
London undertaker son of the said David Williams< no role > is of sufficient
Ability to maintain him

That your Petitioners said Parish is heavily burthened with a
great number of Poor Old Blind Lane and Impotent Persons

Whereby your Petitioners humbly pray that
the said Edward Williams< no role > may be ordered and
obliged at his own Charges to relieve and
maintain for his said poor Father according
to such Rate, as to your Lordship and this Honble
Court shall seem meet to Assess

And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc

B. Eliz. C.2 S.7.