To the Worship full Justice Cowper Chairman of
the Bench of Justices at Hicks's Hall

The Humble Petition & Appeale of Cornelius Jesson< no role >

Sheweth.

That your Petitioner haveing a
Workhouse in the Town of Hoxton in the Parish of Shoreditch ,
for making of Sail cloath for the Service of his Majesties Royal
Navy, and He Carrying on the Same, in divers other parts
of this Kingdom in which places he employs many Hundreds
of the poor, who have never been any ways chargeable to ye said
Parishes And Whereas a Warrant was left the 4th of
this Inst: Aprill at his said Workhouse , Signd By the
Worshipfull Thos. Talboy< no role > & Philip Willshire< no role > Esqrs two of
his Majesties Justices of the peace for the County of Middlesex
Appointing Your Peticoner to be one of the Scavengers
of the said Parish which Warrant was Rejected to be
Sign'd by Ralph Harrwood< no role > Esqr . he judgeing Your Petitioner
not to be a fit person for the Said Office.

And as Your Petitioner has
always freely paid his Assesments without Demurr
In Consideracon of the Above Pmises.

He Humbly prays this
Honble. Court that he maymaybe Discharged
Serveing the Said Office: he Being So instrument
in Imploying the poor his Affairs lieing
So remote, and his dwelling house in ye. parish
of St. Battolph Aldersgate , for which
reasons he is not Able to attend the Same.

And your Petnr. Etc

Corns. Jesson< no role >