To the Right Honorable the Lord
Mayor and others His Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the City of London and Liberties
thereof at their General Sessions of the
Peace Assembled.

The Humble Petition and Appeal of the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint George
in the County of Middlesex.

Sheweth,

That by virtue of an Order of Removal under the Hands
and Seals of Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace (to wit) John
Sawbridge< no role > , Esquire , and Sir James Esdaile< no role > , Knight , (one being of the
Quorum) for the City of London aforesaid, bearing date the twenty
second day of April 1776 Ann< no role > the Wife of Phillip Pilgrim< no role > (who
was then in the Poultry Compter in the said City of London confined
for Debt) and her four Children (videlicet) George< no role > aged Five years and
upwards, Harriot< no role > aged Three years and upwards, Houghton< no role > aged
Eighteen months, and an Infant not then Christened aged Three Weeks
were Removed from the parish of Allhallows Barking in the City
of London to the said parish of Saint George And the said Two last
mentioned Justices of the Peace for the said City of London and
Liberties thereof in and by the said Order of Removal adjudged the
last Legal Settlement of Phillip Pilgrim Husband of the said Ann
to be in the said parish of Saint George by the Description of the
parish of Saint George in the East in the County of Middlesex

That your Petitioners are advised and believe that the
last legal Settlement of the said Phillip Pilgrim is not in the said parish
of Saint George as by the said Order is supposed and therefore they conceive
themselves to be aggrieved by the said Order and Determination of the
said Two Justices and Do humbly appeal to your worships against
the same

Your Petitioners therefore as well on the part and behalf of
themselves as of the other Inhabitants and parishioners
of the said parish of Saint George Do Humbly pray that
the said Order of Removal of the said Ann the Wife of the
said Phillips Pilgrim and her Four Children may be
Quashed And that your Petitioners may be further and
otherwise Relieved in the premises as to your Worships
shall seem meet.

And your Petitioners will ever pray Etc

Major Wright
Sollr. for the Appellants