Your Petitioners apprehend there was no necessity to incur and therefore the same appears to be unreasonable and illegal

That the said John Andrews< no role > and Joseph Druce< no role > have likewise charged and taken credit in their
said Accounts for other very large sums of Money Vizt. the said John Andrews< no role > the sum of Thirty Pounds and upwards and
the said Joseph Druce< no role > the sum of Fifty Pounds and upwards stated by them respectively to have been paid to Casual Poor
without Producing any Order or Authority for such payments and a great number of the said last mentioned payments Vizt.
Amounting to the sum of Eight Pounds fourteen shillings and four pence Charged by the said John Andrews< no role > and to
the sum of Two pounds two shillings and six pence Charged by the said Joseph Druce< no role > are so charged without
mentioning the names of the Persons for whose relief the same were applied And that besides the sums charged as paid
to Casual Poor as aforesaid the said John Andrews< no role > and Joseph Druce< no role > as Overseers of the Poor aforesaid did during
their Continuance in the said Office give a great number of Notes or Orders in Writing under their several hands
to a Baker or Bakers and to a Butcher , or Butchers directing them respectively to Deliver to various Persons
Quantities of Bread and Butchers Meat from time to time to a very considerable amount under pretence that the Persons
to whom the same were to be Delivered were poor and stood in need of relief and that it was proper to relieve them in
that manner And in consequence of such Notes or Orders having been given as aforesaid the Baker or Bakers
Butcher or Butchers to whom the same were sent or directed charged in their several Bills (over and above
their several Charges for such Bread and Butchers Meat as were sent by them respectively to the Workhouse of the
said Parish for the subsistance of the Poor therein) very Considerable sums of Money the payment whereof the said
John Andrews< no role > and Joseph Druce< no role > have severally taken Credit for in their said Accounts without producing any
Order or Authority for having given such Notes or Orders as before mentioned or any of them or for the payment
of the monies which are charged in their said Accounts as having been paid by them respectively in consequence
of their having given the same All which said Payments to Casual Poor charged by them the said John
Andrews< no role > and Joseph Druce< no role > severally and respectively as aforesaid and Notes or Orders for Bread and Butchers
Meat given by them as aforesaid and the payments and Charges for payments in consequence thereof as aforesaid
your Petitioners apprehend to be contrary to the express Declarations and true intent and meaning of the
several statutes made for the Relief of the Poor and also to be of very Dangerous example as by the suffering
of such unwarrantable practices the Inhabitants of the said parish may be subjected to great Edwds.

That a very inconsiderable increase has happened during Twelve Years last past either in
the number of Poor maintained in the Workhouse of the said Parish or in the number of poor belonging to
the said parish whose names and the Occasions which brought them under the necessity of receiving collection
or relief have been registered according to Law notwithstanding which the Monies stated in the before mentioned
Accounts to have been expended in the relief of the Poor of the said Parish during the said Year ending at or
about Easter last amounted to nearly Double the sum that was annually expended in for or concerning the relief
and maintenance of the Poor of the said Parish Twelve Years ago as by the Accounts of the said Parish it appears
that the annual sum expended for the purposes aforesaid amounted in the year ending at Easter 1777 to seven
hundred and thirty six pounds nine shillings and two pence and in the year ending at Easter last the expenditure
amounted to One thousand Five hundred and seventy seven Pounds thirteen shillings and five pence which said
extravagant increase is now become an intolerable grievance and burther to your Petitioners and many other
Inhabitants of the said Parish

That your Petitioners apprehend the before mentioned increase in the Expences of relieving and
maintaining the poor of the said parish has been principally occasioned by illegal Charges in the Accounts of the
said John Andrews< no role > and Joseph Druce< no role > as Overseers of the Poor aforesaid many whereof are as before mentioned And
that another Principal Cause of the said increase in expence has been Occasioned by the improper manner in which
provisions Cloathing and Fuel for the Poor in the Workhouse of the said Parish have been purchased as by the several
Prices of or charges for the same will appear And that the said John Andrews< no role > and Joseph Druce< no role > during the
whole of the lastmentioned Year not only omitted and neglected to purchase the aforesaid Articles for the use of
the poor in the said Workhouse at Fair Reasonable and proper prices but on the contrary purchased the same
at very high rates and greatly above the Prices at which they might have been procured a practice in which in
the Apprehension and belief of your Petitioners they were encouraged by a number of Inhabitants of the said
Parish many of whom had the Advantage of serving the Workhouse with the above mentioned Articles at the
aforesaid high rates and Prices and therefore not only attended themselves at the Monthly Makings to sign and