To the Worshipfull The Justices of the Peace
of the County of Middlesex

The Most humble Petition of Elizabeth Buck< no role > widow
of John Bust< no role > Marinor Decean.

Sheweth

That your Petitioners Said late husband was a Seaman
in his late Majestys Service, and being dissabled in his hints
and greatly advance in Yeares, and distressd. in his circumstances
he applyed to yr. Worships at the Court of Quarter Sessions and
obtained an Order on the thirteenth day of october 1740
to be allowed an yearly Pension of three pounds and there
the Treasurer for the time being, should pay the Same out of the
monies rained us to be rained for Enlife of Soldiers Sailors and
marniers within the Hundred of ossalton, Edmoton, and Gor &

That Psuant to the sd order your Petrs. Said husband
entred four Quarterly payments for the yeare 1741. but never
ofter reced any thing more, having has inforesd. upon he is
application for the Same that no moneys on the acct. aforesd.
had come to the treasurer hands.

That on the 16th. December 1753. Yor Petrs Said husband
dyed, and before his death your Petr. was compelled by nesesscity
to Sale her Months towards the Support of her salt and hear husband
and is now very old and in great went and distress

Wherefore She most humbly prays your worships to order
that the arreares of the said pension or Such past thereof as
yor. Worships shall think meet, may be paid to yor Petr.

And yor Petr, shall Ever pray.