To the Right Honourable John Sawbridge< no role >
Esquire Lord Mayor of the City of London and
to the Right Worshipful his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the said City in their General
Quarter Session of the Peace on Monday the
eighth day of January one thousand seven
hundred and seventy six at the Guildhall of the
said City in and for the said City Assembled

The humble Petititon and Appeal of the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the Township of Brafferton in the
North Riding of the County of York

Sheweth

That by virtue of an Order of Removal bearing date the
30th. day of November 1775 under the hands and seals of the Right
Honourable John Sawbridge< no role > Esquire Lord Mayor of the City of London and
Robert Alsop< no role > Esquire two of his Majesty's Justices of Peace for the said City and
directed to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Brafferton in the North Riding of the County of York Thomas Ray< no role > a
Lunatick was removed from the Parish of Saint Dunstan in the West in the
said City of London to the said Township of Brafferton as the place of
the last legal Settlement of the said Thomas Ray whereby you Petitioner
reaceives himself to be agrieved

Your Petitioner therefore humbly Appeals
to this Court against the said Order And prays
that the Court will be pleased to Order that the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of
the said Parish of Saint Dunstan in the West
and all persons concerned do attend this Court
some day in the next ensuing Session of the peace
for the said City of London to hear and abide the
Judgment and determination of the said Court touching
the said Appeal And that the benefit of hearing the
said appeal at that Session may be saved to your
Petitioner And that your Petitioner may be
otherwise relieved in the premises as the said
Court shall see fit

And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.

Tho Strangwayes< no role >
Solicitor for the Appellant