May it please your Honours
Your Worships most humble Petitioner John
Vain< no role > Parishioner to St Andrews Holbourn , but
new living in Bowling Alley , Turn Mill Street
but in a very Sick & languishing Condition; humbly
pray that your Worships, will be pleased to grant
him a pass, that He may be relieved, in order
to present his Starving: & shall as in Duty bound
pray for your Worships. I am your Worships
most Obedient & dutiful Servant Jno: Vain< no role >
Turn Mill Street 16 Octr 1755.

Your poor Petitioner is now here in waiting