To the Worshipfull Wm. Mainwaring< no role > Esqr . the
Chairman and the Best of His Majestys
Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex in their General Session of
the peace held for the said County in
the Month of February 1787. Assembled

The Petition of Henry Adams< no role > This name instance is in set 1591.
Humbly Sheweth,

That Your Petitioner is the
Contractor for Conveying Vagrants in
though and out of this County and
hath been so over since April Session 1774

That at the General Session of
the Peace held for this County in September
1785. your Petitioners applied to the Court
and stated that the number of Vagrants
Conveyed by him had so much increased
that during the Year ending in April 1785
he had removed 4244 Vagrants by virtue
of 3329 Passes which was 1038 Vagrants
by 954 passes more than the number by
him removed during the Year ending in
April 1784 and in consequence of the
Application the Court were Pleased to
for the Extra Expence Trouble and attend
brought upon him by the great Increase of
Vagrants during that Period

That your Petition hath Conveyd
4002 Vargrants by 3164 passes between April
Session 1785 and April Session 1786 which