To the Worshipful William Mainwaring< no role > Esqr .
Chairman : and the Rest of his Majesty Justices of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex at their adjourned
Quarter Session of the Peace assembled

The Humble Petition of William Stokes< no role > Surveyor of the Parish of
Christ Church Middlesex the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell and the
Hamlet of Mile End new "Town in the said County

Sheweth

That your Petitioners was ordered by John Staples< no role > Esqr and the Revd.
Herbert Mayo< no role > DD two of his Majesty Justices of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex residing in the Parish of Saint George Middlesex to survey the
Building in the said Parish since the Death of Mr. Thomas Dade< no role > the late
Surveyor And on examining the same found a Number not certified and Numbers
of others erected contrary to the Statute in that Cases made and provided that
you Petitioner hath caused several of them to be alter'd and others to enter into
Recognizances to alter the same agreeable to the said Statute within times
not as yet expired, and others have begun to be built under the Inspection
of your Petitioner

Therefore Humbly Prays your Worships to permit him to Certify
those that he hath caused to be alterd and also those began under the Inspection
of you Petitioner

And as in Duty, bound will ever pray

William Stokes< no role >