To the Worshipful the Commissioners
for Building a new Session House on
Clerkenwell Green .
the Petition of John Papworth< no role > Plaisterer .

humbly Sheweth

That your Petitioner has Completed his Contract
for Plaistering the New Session House upwards of a Year.
a Certificate of which was delivered to Your Worships at
that time from the Surveyor, that by a Clause in the
Contract the Ballance was to be paid at the expiration
of Six Months after the Work was Completed which
Consideration among other reasons induced Your
Petitioner to do it on very moderate terms

That Your Petitioner is a Young Man has been but
a short time in Business & has very great occasion for
Money, he therefore hopes You will be Pleased to pay
him the Ballance of his Contract amounting to £155,
and extras to £105..19s..9d. and Your Petitioner as in

Duty bound shall ever Pray
John Papworth< no role >

Jany. the 16. 1783