To the Right Worshipfull his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex in General
Quarter Session Assembled.

The humble Petition and Appeal of the several Persons
whose names are hereunto subscribed Inhabitants and
Housholders in the Parish of Saint George in the County
of Middlesex on behalf of themselves and the rest of the
Inhabitants of the said Parish

Sheweth

That in the Year 1751 one William Smith< no role > and several others
Inhabitants of the said Parish of St. George exhibited their Appeal
against a Rate or Assessment made for Relief of the Poor of the said
Parish for the sd: Year, Alledging that there then was in the Hands Custody
or Possession of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor or in the
Hands Custody or possion of Trustees appointed for that purpose for the Use
of the poor of the said Parish in Government Securities and Money,
£1093,,8,,7, and which had been raised on the Inhabitants and
Housholders of the said Parish for the Support and maintenance of
the poor of the same Parish, and that no Sum or Sums of Money
ought or should be raised on the said Inhabitants and Housholders
of the said Parish for the Support and Maintenance of the Poor of the
said Parish until all such Sum & Sums of Money which was then in
the Hands possion or Custody of the said Churchwardens and Overseers
of the Poor and Trustees as aforesaid of the said Parish should be expended
applied and laid out for the purposes for which such Sum & Sums of
Money had been raised; Which said Appeal was heard in December Sessions
in the said Year 1751, when the Court quashed the said Rate, and it was
then agreed in open Court that no Costs should be paid to the Appellants.

That on the first day of August in the Year aforesaid at a
Publick Vestry held pursuant to Notice published in the Church according
to the Custom of the said Parish, a Committee was appointed in order to
purchase a Set of Bells for the Use of the said Parish, who having
afterwards purchased a Set applied for a Faculty to hang them up, but a
Caveat having been entred against granting the Faculty by the said
William Smith< no role > , a Suit was commenced in Doctors Commons , and the
Sense of the Parish being almost unanimous for Bells, the said Caveat
was at length withdrawn & a Faculty granted.

That in the Year 1752 the said William Smith< no role > (who is a Quaker)
got himself with one Josiah Hoskins< no role > another Quaker and two others to
be confirmed Overseers of the Poor (tho' they had all before served that
Office) and contrary to the Custom of the said Parish chose the said Josiah
Hoskins