To the Worshipful his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the
City and Liberty of Westminster Assembled at the Michaelmas
Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City and Liberty aforesaid
on Wednesday the 19th: day of October 1757

The humble petition of John Whitehead< no role > and Mary
Spinnage

Sheweth

That at the General Quarter Session of the Peace
holden for the City and Liberty of Westminster on Wednesday
the 15:19th day of October 1756 your Worships were pleased to grant
License to your Petitioner John Whitehead< no role > & one Mary Brayfield< no role > single deced 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 publick Dancing Musick or other publick Entertainment
of the like Kind Which License was to Continue in force until
the present Michaelmas Quarter Session of the peace
held for the Liberty aforesaid

That your Petitioners John Whitehead< no role > & the said Mary Brayfield< no role > did in all things performed
and fulfill the Condition of the said License

Your Petitioners John Whitehead< no role > and Mary Spinnage< no role > therefore humbly pray
that your Worships would be pleased to
grant a New License to your Petitioners
for the said House for the Purposes
aforesaid to continue in force untill the
next Michaelmas Quarter Session of the
peace to be holden for this Liberty

And Your Petitioners shall ever pray
Etc.

J Whitehead
Mary Spinnage< no role >