To the Worsipfull the Justices of
The Peace for the County of Middlesx

The humble Petition of Ann pendlebury< no role > of St
Leonard Shorditch Widow Sheweth

Your poor petitioner being a very poor woman Aged Sixty
years and upwards and hath been a Long time afflicted with
the rumatism and tissick which hath rendred her incapable
of aney worck or earning any thing towards her Subsistance
So that She was fored to apply her Self to the Churchwardens
for relief but the very Churlishly denide heer [..] times
but att Last ye did promise to alow her two shill per month
which will hardly Sustain Nature She Likewise applyd her self
to Justise harwood and he told her be wold have Nothing to do
with it which forces her to trouble your Worships with
this petition humbly beying your worships goodness and
Compassion for her Necessity Shall think meet

and your poore Petition
as in Duty bound
Shall ever pray

Decr 9th 1725