Charles the Second by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. [electronic resource] : To all and singular archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deans and their officials, parsons, vicars, curates, and all other spiritual persons: And also to all justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, baylisss, [sic] constables, churchwardens, chappelwardens, headboroughs, collectors for the poor, and their Overseers : ... Whereas we are credibly given to understand, as well by the humble petition of the church-wardens, and poor distressed inhabitants of the parish of St. Paul Shadwell, and the hamlets of Wapping in the parish of White-Chappel, and parish of Stepney, in the county of Middlesex; as also by a certificate made at the general quarter sessions of the peace, held for our said county of Middlesex, at Hicks's-hall, in the said county, on Monday, the fifteenth day of January last past, under the hands of our right trusty and right well beloved couzin and councellor William Earl of Craven, our right trusty and well-beloved John Lord Offulston, and our trusty and well-beloved Sir Charles Lee, Knight, Chairman of our said sessions ; Sir Reginald Foster, Barronet, Sir William Smith, Barronet, Sir Thomas Robinson, Barronet, Sir Richard Deerham, Knight and Barronet, Sir Thomas Orby, Knight and Barronet, Sir Clement Armiger, Knight, Sir John Berry, Knight, Sir John Elwes, Knight, John Phillips, William Bridgman, Thomas Rowe, James Dewy, John Shales, Thomas Hariot, Thomas Done, William Freeman, Edmond Warcupp, John Pery, Thomas Smith, John Balch, Abraham Bayly, and Robert Hastings, Esquires, justices of the peace for our said county ; That upon Sunday the nineteenth day of November last past, about ten of the clock in the night of the same day, there happened a sudden and most dreadful fire in the said Hamlet of Wapping White-Chappel, ...