To the Worshipfull the Justices of the peace
of the County of middsx:

The Humble Petition of the overseers of the poore
St Andrew Holborne in the Liberty above Barrs

Humbly Sheweth

That where as one Widdow Hovey y [..]
House holder in the said Liberty Hath putt her Sonn
Hovey in prison in the Marshallsea in South wark and [..]
a wife and two Children in the said Liberty is thereby became
Chargeable to the said Liberty

We therefore humbly in treat your Worshipps
to Cause the said Widdow Hovey to be brought
before you That by your order she may be obliged
to provid for her said Grand children And that
peticonr be discharged from any further
maintenance of them

And your peticonr shall ever Pray &