To the Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Court
of Middlesex in their General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled

The Petition and Appeal of the Several Inhabitants Owners
and Occupiers of Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the parish of
Ealing in the said County who were assessed to and have paid the poors Rate of the
said parish for the year ending at or about Easter now last past whose names are
hereunto subscribed on behalf of themselves and other Inhabitants of the said parish

Sheweth

That John Andrews< no role > and Joseph Druce< no role > House holders and Inhabitants of the
said parish who served the Office of Overseers of the Poor of the said parish for the year ending at or
about Easter last did during the Continuance of their said Office by Virtue of two several rates made for
the relief and Maintenance of the poor of the said parish and otherwise by Virtue of their said Office
collect and receive divers large sums of Money for and towards the necessary relief and support of the
poor of the said parish for which sums so collected and received they have delivered their Accounts

That in discharge of the monies so by them Collected and received they have charged
and taken credit for in their said Accounts very large sums of Money which are stated and
expressed therein to have been paid by them for various purposes that your petitioners conceive
have no relation to the relief or support of the Poor nor can be legally chargeable on or paid out of the Monies
collected by Virtue of the Poors rate To Wit the said John Andrews< no role > has charged and taken Credit as
aforesaid for the sum of Fifty nine pounds four shillings and two pence purporting to be the Amount of the Bill
of Messrs Acton and Winter Attornies at Law for fees and other charges incurring in opposing a Bill that was brought
into parliament for shutting up a Road called love lane between Richmond Gardens and Kew Gardens in the County
of Surry the Object whereof had no relation what ever to any of the purposes to which the said Ratcought by Law to be
made collected or applied and has likewise Charged and taken credit as aforesaid for the sum of Twelve Pounds nine
Shillings and three pence as paid by him the said John Andrews< no role > to the Constables and Headborough of the said parish
without producing any legal order or Authority for the payment thereof as your petitioners apprehend and has likewise
Charged and taken Credit as aforesaid for the sum of Three Pounds seventeen shillings and six pence stated in the Account
of him the said John Andrews< no role > to be "Expences of the Jury on the Body of a new born Infant"And the said Joseph
Druce< no role > has charged and taken credit as aforesaid for the sum of Seven pounds two shillings and eight pence as paid
by him to the said Constables and Head borough without producing any legal Order or Authority for the payment
thereof as your Petitioners apprehend all which said Charges your Petitioners conceive to be illegal.

That the said John Andrews< no role > and Joseph Druce< no role > have likewise charged and take credit in their said
accounts for several other sums of Money, that is to say the said Joseph Druce< no role > the sum of two Pounds charged as paid by
him on the 30th. of July 1788 "at the making a Poors Rate" and the further sum of One Pound one shilling charged
as paid by him the 18th. of February 1789 "Upon making the second Poors Rate" and the said John Andrews< no role > the
sum of One pound one shilling charged as paid by him on the last mentioned Day and likewise stated to be "Upon
"making the second poors. Rate" the whole of the said three last mentioned sums amounting together to the sum of
Four pounds two Shillings and as the Vestry Clerk of the said Parish has an annual Salary for executing the duties
of his Office a part whereof is the Copying and Figuring the said Rate your Petitioners apprehend the said several
Charges last mentioned are for Tavern Expences only and therefore improper and illegal

That the said John Andrews< no role > has also charged and taken credit as aforesaid for the sum of £11..14..6 as expences
in attending the Sessions of this County on the Trial of an Appeal which said Sum does not as your Petitioners apprehend include any part
of the Bill of the Solicitor who managed such Appeal nor any Fees paid to Counsel but appears to be only for travelling and tavern expences
And has likewise charged and taken credit as aforesaid for the sum of £8..3..6 as the expences incurred in apprehending
one Stephen Stockbridge< no role > upon a charge of Bastardy and procuring him to be Married and the sum of 10s/ as paid to one
Joseph Andrews< no role > for attending at the Westminster Election

That the said John Andrews< no role > and Joseph Druce< no role > might have verified their Accounts before a Justice or
Justices of the Peace in their own neighbourhood without any expence whatever notwithstanding which they went for
he purpose of verifying the same from the said Parish to the Publick Office in Bow Street Covent Garden and each of them have charged and
taken credit in their said Accounts for fourteen Shillings amounting in the whole to the sum of one Pound and eight
Shillings as and for their expences on that occasion charges which under the abovementioned circumstances