to the Worshipful Sir John Hawkins< no role >
Knight Chairman and the rest of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace
assembled in their General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace held for the
County of Middlesex

The humble Petition of Messrs. Arnold
and Berry many Years Proprietors of
Mary bone Gardons

Most humbly Sheweth

That their Conduct in the management of the said
Gardens past uncensured and that they found no
impediment from your Worships to granting them a
Licence until the last Michaelmas Sessions which
was occasioned by Signor Torree's exhibiting
Five Works at their Gardens.

That your Petitioners were not the cause or
any ways instigators of the said Signor Torree's com
ing to this Kingdom His design being to exhibit
Fireworks at Ranelagh Gardens , but the Proprietors
did not agree to his Terms and declined entering into
any engagement with him Nor had your Petitioners
any thoughts of applying to him until thereunto
induced by the Perswasions of many respectable Per
sons who assured them that if the said Signor Torree'
could obtain a Licence from the Master of the Ordnance
such exhibition would not be contrary to Law