To the Right Honourable
John Sawbridge< no role >
Esquire
Lord Mayor
of the City of London
and
to the Right Worshipful his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the said City in their General
Quarter Session of the Peace on Monday the
eighth day of January one thousand seven
hundred and seventy six
at the Guildhall
of the
said City in and for the said City Assembled
The humble Petititon and Appeal of the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the Township of Brafferton in the
North Riding of the County of York
Sheweth
That by virtue of an Order of Removal bearing date the
30th. day of November 1775
under the hands and seals of the Right
Honourable
John Sawbridge< no role >
Esquire
Lord Mayor
of the City of London
and
Robert Alsop< no role >
Esquire
two of his Majesty's Justices of Peace
for the said City and
directed to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Brafferton
in the North Riding
of the County of York
Thomas Ray< no role >
a
Lunatick
was removed from the Parish of Saint Dunstan in the West
in the
said City of London
to the said Township of Brafferton
as the place of
the last legal Settlement of the said Thomas Ray whereby you Petitioner
reaceives himself to be agrieved
Your Petitioner therefore humbly Appeals
to this Court against the said Order And prays
that the Court will be pleased to Order that the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of
the said Parish of Saint Dunstan in the West
and all persons concerned do attend this Court
some day in the next ensuing Session of the peace
for the said City of London to hear and abide the
Judgment and determination of the said Court touching
the said Appeal And that the benefit of hearing the
said appeal at that Session may be saved to your
Petitioner And that your Petitioner may be
otherwise relieved in the premises as the said
Court shall see fit
And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.
Tho Strangwayes< no role >
Solicitor
for the Appellant