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 13th. day of October 1756
The humble petition of John Whiteheas< no role >
& Mary Brayfield< no role >
Sheweth
That at the General Quarter Session of the peace holden for the City and
Liberty of Westminster
on Wednesday the 15th. day of October 1755 your Worships
were pleased to grant License to your petitioners to keep a certain House called or
known by the name of the New Theatre in the Haymarket
in the parish of St
Martin in the fields
in the Liberty aforesaid for public Dancing Musick or other
Publick 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 License
Your Petitioners 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 until the
next Michaelmas Quarter Session of the Peace to be
holden for this Liberty
And Your petitioners shall ever prat Etc
Whitehead
Mary Brayfied< no role >