referred to Mr
Serjt Mundy
& Mr Metcalfe

To the Worsfull: her Majties: Justices Assign'd to hold the
Peace within the County of Middx

The peticon of Nathaniel Briscoe< no role >

Humbly Sheweth

That yor. Peticonr for the terme of Seventeene yeares
last past hath been an Inhabitant in the Liberty above
the barrs in the parish of St. Andrew Holborne and alwaies
maintained his family by his honest Labour and Industry
That it hath pleased Almighty God for a long time to
afflict yor Peticon with the distemper called the Rheumatisin
whereby he is at present rendred altogether uncapable
of working for his Subsistance having a wife and five
Children

And forasmuch as yor peticonr by the meanes aforesaid
is reduced to great necessity He most humbly
prayes yor Worspps to order the Overseers for the
poor in the said division to allow yor Peticon
such P subsistance as to yor worspps goodness shall
think meet

And he shall ever pray Etc