To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London
and the Rest of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City
in their General Session of the Peace assembled

The humble Petition and appeal of the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor
of the Parish of Saint James within the
Liberty of City of Westminster in the
Country of Middlesex

Sheweth

That by Virtue of an order under the Hands and
Seals of Robert Peckham< no role > and John Hart< no role > Esquires two of His
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of London and Liberties
thereof (one being of the Quorum) bearing Date the 15th. day of
January last William Chivings< no role > and Ann< no role > his Wife were removed
and conveyed from the Parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate
London to the said Parish of Saint James Westminster as the
place of their last legal Settlement whereby your Petitioners
conceive themselves aggrieved

Your Petitioners therefore humbly appeal
to this Court against the adjudication of the
said two Justices and their said Order and
pray that the Hearing and Determining of
the said Appeal may come on at this
present General Session

And your Petitioners will ever pray Etc.