To the Right Honourable Sir Samuel Esdaile< no role > Knight
Lord Mayor of the City of London and To the Rest of His
Majesty's Justices of the peace for the said City at their
General Quarter Session assembled.

The humble Petition of Henry Teasch< no role > [..] of
George Yard in Water Lane in the precinct of White
Fryers in the Ward of Farringdon without in the
City of London .

Sheweth

That at the General Quarter Session of the peace holden for the City
of London at the Guild hall within the said City (by Adjournment) on Friday
the fifth Day of November in the fourteenth Year of His present Majesty's
Reign the Justices of the Peace there present did grant Licence unto John
Cunningham< no role > of George Yard Water Lane in the precinct of White Fryers in the
Ward of Farringdon without in the City of London to keep one Hospital
House or Place and no more for the the publick or Charitable Reception of
Pregnant Women situate in George Yard aforesaid wherein he then
dwell and not elsewhere in pursuance and by Virtue of a certain Act
of Parliament made in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of our said
Sovereign Lord the King. Intituled, "An Act for the better Regulation of
Lying in Hospitals and there places appropriated for the Charitable
Reception of Pregnant Women; and also to provide for the Settlement
of Bastard Children born in such Hospitals and places.

That the said John Cunningham< no role > with the Assistance of your
Petitioner in pursuance of such Licence kept the said Hospital House
or place for the purposes aforesaid until the time of the Death of the said
John Cunningham< no role > which happened on the Thirteenth Day
of April last

That your Petitioner is Executive of the said John
Cunningham< no role > and with the Reemission of this Honourable