To The Worship full his Majesty's Justices of
the Peace for the County of Middlesex in
their General Sessions assembled

The humble Petition of Robert Muggeridge< no role > of
Banstead in the County of Surry Farmer

Sheweth

That by an Order of William Timbrell< no role > and William Mantle< no role > Esquires two of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the City and Liberty of Westminster made the
third Day of November in the third Year of his present Majesty's Reign reciting that
whereasit had appeared to the said Justices as well upon Complaint of the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square
in the said Liberty as upon the Oath of one Phillis Greenhouse< no role > This name instance is in set 390. This set is in the group(s): MothersPS . Singlewoman that
she the said Phillis Greenhouse on the seventeenth Day of August then last past
was delivered of a Female Bastard Child at the lying Inn Hospital in the said
Parish and that your Petitioner did beget the said Bastard Child and therefore the
said Justices adjudged your Petitioner to be the reputed Father of the said Bastard
Child And ordered that your Petitioner upon Notice of that Order should forthwith
pay to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint George
Hanover Square the Sum of two Pounds and eleven Shillings for and towards the
Maintenance of the said Bastard Child to that time and Otherwise the Sum of two Shillings
and six Pence weekly from that Time so long as the said Bastard Child should be
chargeable to the said Parish.

That your Petitioner apprehends himself greatly aggrieved by the said
Order:

Your Petitioner therefore humby prays
Your Worships may be pleased to grant unto your
Petitioner such Relief in the Premises as to your
Worships shall seem meet

And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc