Recomended to vestry
St Mlis

To the Honoble the Justices assembled at Westmr.
to hold the Quarter Sessions there.

The humble petition of Ellen Adams< no role > Widdow

Sheweth

That your Petr. is the sorrowfull widdow of
Richard Adams< no role > Esqr formerly a Barrister of Lincolns Inn
& well known to severall worthy persons [..] inhabitants
of the Cittyes of London & Westmr . but now dead for seaven years past.
That since the death of the said Richard Adams < no role > your petr. the [..]
poore children is fallen into greate want & misery through the
failing of two persons who had in their hands all the
subsistance & provision which the said Richard Adams< no role > left for
the support of your petr & her Children.

wherefore your petr. humbly prays your honers to
consider her miserable Condition & to recomend her to the
Overseers of the poore & Vestry of St Martins parrish where
she hath [..] for some time inhabited to receive such part
of the publiq charity as to your honers & the masters of the
parish shall seeme meet

And your petr. will ever pray Etc.

The Widdow
Adams Petition