To the Right Honorble . Sr . Francis Child< no role > Knt . Lord Maior
of the City of London And to the Right Worll. his Maties. Justices
of the Peace in the Generall Quarter Sessions Assembled

The humble peticon & Appeale of the Parishioners
of the Parish of St. Mathew Friday Streete
London

Sheweth

That theof yor. Petrs. Parish by mistake in a
returne to the Precept directed to them from the Right Honoble. the late Lord
Maior of this City to give an account of their Poore and the charge of
mainteyning them hee made a returne of the sume of £79:15s:6d for the
Yeares charge in 1697 wch. was the totall sume of all the Payments made
in every respect for & concerning the same Parish Whereas in truth the
true charge of their Poore amounts to noe more Then about £52:16s.

And their said Parish being charged by virtue of the late Act of
Comon Councill to pay £39:10s to the Corporation established by the said
Act for setting the Poore on worke

Now yor. Petrs. in respect of the smallnesse of their Parish
And the greate charge of Poore therein which they have to
mainteyne Desire that yor. Lopp. & Worpps. will be pleased to
releive yor. Petrs. And to order the Abatement of the said sume of
£39:10s. to such sume in proportion To what doth truely arise by
their assessement for mainteyning the Poore of their said Parish
They being only releivable by this Courte

And they shall Pray Etc