To the Worpll: his Matis:
Justices of Peace
for the County of Middx
att a Generall Quarter Sessions held for
the said County att
Hicks Hall
The humble Petition of the Church Wardens [..]
Overseers of the Poore and other ye Inhabi [..]
tants of the Parish of Allhallows
SteyningLondon
Sheweth
That George Smith< no role >
on the second of July [..]
Instant, by Vertue of a Warrant under the hands [..]
Seales of two Justices of Peace
for the said County [..]
Middx, was removed and conveyed from the Parish of [..]
St Mary
White Chapple
in the County of Middx afore [..]
to the said Parish of Allhallows
Steyning upon an
allegation that the said George Smith< no role >
was a hired Ser
-vant to Capt: John Richardson< no role >
of the said Parish,
according to the Statute in such case made. That by
the teny Warrant or Pass it appeares that the said
George Smith< no role >
did not live a whole yeare with his
said Master and therefore not legally Settled in the
said Parish, and the said George Smith< no role >
being like [..]
to be a burcher to the said Parish,
Your Peticonr humbly Appeale to [..]
Worps for releife in the Premisses and
that the said George Smith< no role >
may be re-
moved back to the Parish of White Chapel
aforesaid or elsewhere as to yor Worps
in your Wisdomes shall seem meete
And Your Peticonr shall ever Pray Etc