At a Vestry held for the Freedom & Lordship Parts of
the Parish of St. Botolph Aldgate in the said Parish
Church on Tuesday the 1st. day of May 1770

Mr John Watts< no role > Mr John Cressey< no role >
Mr Benj. Bunn< no role > Mr John Hough< no role >
Mr Philip Morgan< no role > Mr Wm Rogers< no role >
Mr Geo: Ritherdon< no role > Mr John Lane< no role >
Mr Holly Brecknock< no role > Mr Abrm Brecknock< no role >
Mr Wm Brander< no role > Mr Edwd Kibble< no role >
Mr Edwd. Gibbs< no role > Mr Robt Harding< no role >
Mr John Gee< no role > Mr Peter Astie< no role >
Mr James Sive< no role > Mr Chas. Rogers< no role >

Mr John Bayzand< no role >
Mr John Hatcher< no role >
Mr John Bridge< no role >
Mr Thos Skerrett< no role >
Mr Thos Sansum< no role >
Mr John Downes< no role >
Mr Mould
Mr Shain Downes< no role >

The following Complaint & Petition of Mr John Marchant< no role > [..]
was Read (Vizt.)

"To the Churchwardens and Parishioners of th [..]
"Parish of St Botolph Aldgate in the Ward of Pati [..]
"London & County of Middx

"Sheweth That the Vault under the Kitchen of John [..]
"Marchant< no role > who Rents a House held by Lease of the said Parish [..]
"in a very bad & rotten State and having of late Years been w [..]
"a Buiral place (contrary to the mannor of its being used Tw [..]
"years ago) by which the Family of the said Complainant [..]
"been much endangered by Sickness from the Stench which aris [..]
"from the said Burials And Whereas there has been several
"Methods tired to prevent the same at the Expence of the Parish [..]
"the said Complainant which has not answered the Expectation o [..]
"the Parties and now as Weather grows mild the Effluvia of those [..]