preceding Sunday) at which a great Number of Parishoners Attended
and Six Persons were put in Nomination for the Office of Overseers of
the said Parish for the ensuing Near in order that Three of them might
be chosen and the Parishoners proceeded to their Election in the usual
modes in the result of which there appeared for Mr. John Hall< no role > of
Tottenham Court Road Carpenter 136 and for Mr. George Young< no role > of Goodge Street
Carver and Gilder 118 forForrest 94 and for IPowell 79
Scratches only

That Although there was so great a Majority in favour of the
said John Hall< no role > and George Young< no role > against the saidForrest and I.
Powell Yet Jacob Lerow< no role > Esquire and Acting Magistrate within the said
Parish (who Attended the said Vestry and Actually noted there) without
waiting for the usual Return from the Vestry Clark went from the
Church and immediately Signed a Warrant appointing the said
Forrest and IPowell together with oneJones Overseers for
the ensuing Year and then sent such Warrant of Appointment to
[..] Edmund Armstrong< no role > William Gascoigne< no role > and Thomas Jones< no role > Esquires
three other of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the said County in
order that they might sign such Warrant of Appointment and who
seperately signed the same at their respective Houses no Petty Session
having been held for the purpose of Signing the said Warrant nor any
Two Justices having Signed it in the presence of each other

That the Appointment so made by the said Justices in favor of
the persons in the Minority being in direct Opposition to the usual
Custom exercised in the said Parish and without any reasonable Cause
in as much as the said John Hall< no role > and George Young< no role > are in every