To the Right Honoble: the Lord Mayor and the Right
Worpll: the Justices of the Peace for the City of London Etc:

The humble Peticon of the Church:Wardens
and Overseers of the Poor and other the
Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Mildreds
Poultrey

Humbly Sheweth

That having but 74 houses in the Parish
whereof but 31 are to the Street and 43 in Alleys, in the last of which
many meane people doe live, by occasion of which they have severall
Pensioners, and not a few Children laid and left to the said Parish to
maintaine (of which they have severall now at Nurse) They have beene
for these and the like reasons necessitated to raise Sometimes 60 and
at other times £70 a yeare for the said Poore, But this not withstanding
there hath beene for Sometime by Annward this prsent yeare noe
less then £8 laid upon the said Parish to pay to St. Sepulchres, And
yor. Peticonrs. being informed that severall neighbouring Parishes
(better able to answer the like Occasionns as they Conceive) doe
not pay half so much.

Humbly pray they may have
Some Case therein.

And yor: Peticonrs: shall pray Etc:

St. Mildred Poultry

1690 ?

Petitions of Churchwardens
Etc