of some few of the said Inhabitants wherein Divine
Worship hath ever since been performed, and an
annual rent is now paid by the Petitioners for the
same, And that great part of the said Church-
together with the Tower thereof about five yeares
since fell down, and nothing now remains standing
but a small part of one of the walls thereof soe-
that the said Church and Tower must unavoidably
be rebuilt, And that the said parish of Ealing being
very extensive and the Inhabitants thereofbeing
numerousvery Numerous, there being about seven
hundred Familys therein, and the Town of Old
Brentford (which is cheifly inhabited by poor
Watermen Fishermen and Day Labourers) being
part of and lying within the said parish the
petitioners are burthened with a very Numerous
poor, for whose maintenance the annual
Assessments have in some yeares amounted to three
shillings in the pound, And that the Petitioners
have lately erected a workhouse for which they
are indebted a considerable sum, so that the
petitioners are not able by any contributions make
among themselves to raise a sum sufficient to
rebuild the said Church, although they have used
their utmost endeavours so to do by getting a
subscription amongst themselves for that purpose,
but such subscription in case the whole money
subscribed should be paid which is very uncertain
will amount to no more than the sum of five hundred
and twenty pounds or thereabouts, And that the Petitioners