To the Worshipful his Majesties Justices of the peace for the City & Liberty of Westmr. Assembled at
the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions of the peace held for the City and Liberty aforesaid on Wednesday the
15th. Day of October 1755.

The humble petition of John Whitehead< no role > & Mary Brayfield< no role >

Sheweth

That at the General Quarter Session of the peace holden for the City & Liberty
aforesaid on Wednesday the 16th. day of October 1754 your Worships were pleased
to Grant Licence to your petitioners to keep a certain House called or known
by the name of the New Theatre in the Hay Market in the Parish of St. Martin in
the fields in the Liberty aforesaid for public Dancing Musick or other public
Entertainment of the like kind Which Licence was to continue in force until the
present Michaelmas Quarter Session of the Peace held for the Liberty aforesaid

That your Petitioners have in all things performed and fulfilled the Condition
of the said Licence

Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your
Worships would be pleased to Grant a New Licence
to your Petitioners for the said House for the purposes
aforesaid to continue in force until the next Michaelmas
Quarter Session of the peace to be holden for this
Liberty

And your petitioners shall ever pray Etc

Whitehead

Mary Brayfield