To his Majesties Worshipfull
Justices of the Peace in and for the
County ofEffectMiddx at their Quarter
Session Assembled in & for the said County

The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of
parish of Enfield in the said County

Sheweth

That sheet is a certain Brook of Water
running across the Kemp Highway near Forty Hill in
the Parish of Enfield in the County of Middlesex
which at certain times as the year is so Deep and
Dangerous to his Majesties Leige Subjects passing
with their Horses Carts and Carriages shall way as
to make it absolutely necessary for the safety of
their Lives that a Bridge should be a built our
the same for Carts Horses and carriages

That last Wintes a Cart and Horse with
the Order passing this the Brook was washd
away and the Man Drowned thereby and that
within there fear Months past a Servant of Mr
Mellishs also lost his Life in passing [..] such
Brook-That the said Highway as a very-
Publick one & the direct road from that part of
the Parish of Enfield into the Cornelies of Hertford
and Essey -your Petitioner therefore Humbly
Pray your Worships to Order a Bridge
to be Built across the said Brook so
present the Lives of his Majesties subject
being Endangerd that pass that way
and your Petitioners shall ever
pray Etc

Geo: Willm. Prescott< no role >

on behalf of himself &
the rest of the Plan Seconds
24 May 1792.