To his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex in the General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace assembled

The Humble Petition of Henry
Holland< no role > Richard Westmacot< no role > John Linnell< no role >
William Clerke< no role > and Charles Smith< no role >
Inhabitants of the parish of St. George Hanover
Square in the County of Middlesex

Sheweth

That your Petitioners have been for several Years last past
and during the Years 1786 and 1787 they were Inhabitants of the
said Parish and as such liable and paid the Rates and Assessments
made for the relief of the poor of the said Parish

That in the Year 1786 The Right Honorable Lord Boston and
Jervase Clerke Jervase< no role > Esqr . Two of the Inhabitants of the said Parish
were the Church wardens and Robert Faulder< no role > Samuel Hudson< no role >
Merry Wilson< no role > and Alexander Yeate< no role > Four other Inhabitants of the
said Parish were Overseers of the Poor of the same Parish of St. George
Hanover Square aforesaid.

That an Account of the Sums assessed collected and received within each
Ward of the said Parish and all Monies paid and disbursed for the
relief of the poor of the said Parish in the year 1786 hath been Entered
examined adjusted and allowed at a meeting of the Vestry of the said Parish
pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament passed in the 26th.
year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the 2nd Intitled "an act
for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty and City of Westminster and for cleansing
the Streets and repairing the High Ways within the said Parish". That in
such Account there are divers Sums of Money charged as Payments and
Disbursements for the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish unto Sundry
Persons therein named and for divers purposes therein mentioned which
as your Petitioners conceive ought not to have been charged therein the
same not having been disbursed or paid for the Relief of the Poor of the
said Parish.