To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London and the
rest of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City in General Quarter
Session of the Peace at the Guildhall in the said City assembled

The humble Petition and Appeal of the Church Wardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Anne within the Liberty of
Westminster in the County of Middlesex.

Sheweth

That by Virtue of an Order under the hands and Seals of John
Sawbridge< no role > Esquire Mayor and John Wilkes< no role > Esquire two of his Majesty's
Justices of the peace for the City of London and Liberty thereof one being of
the Quorum bearing Date the Nineteenth Day of December last A Woman
and Child in the said Order called and described by the Names and
Descriptions of Elizabeth Coward< no role > the Widow of George Coward< no role > deceased
and George< no role > her Son aged ten years were removed and conveyed from
the Parish of Saint Giles Cripplegate without London to the said Parish
of Saint Anne (in the said Order called and described by the name of the
Parish of Saint Anne Soho in the County of Middlesex ) as the Place of
their last legal Settlement Whereby your Petitioners conceive
themselves to be aggrieved.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly Appeal to this Court
against the Adjudication of the said two Justices and their
said Eeder And pray that the benefit of this Appeal may be saved to your Petitioners
and that the hearing and determining thereof may be adjourned to
the next general Session of the peace to be taken for the said City
and the Liberty thereof

And Your Petitr shall pray Etc

Joseph Poley< no role >
Wm Simpson< no role > }
Churchwardens
and

Ja Marshall< no role >
Still Wilson< no role > }
Overseers of the Poor
of the said Parish of
Saint Anne