it below in full:

To the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Father in God,
William, Lord Bishop of London, one of His Majesty's
Honorable Privy Council. The humble petition of the
churchwardens and constables of Blackfriars, on the behalf
of the whole Parish, showing that by reason of a playhouse,
exceedingly frequented, in the precinct of the said
Blackfriars, the inhabitants there suffer many grievances
upon the inconveniences hereunto annexed, and many other.

May it therefore please your Lordship to take the said
grievances into your honorable consideration for the
redressing thereof. And for the reviving the order, which
hath been heretofore made by the Lords of the Council, and
the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen, for the removal of
them. And they shall, according to their duties, ever pray
for your Lordship.

Reasons and Inconveniences Inducing the Inhabitants of
Blackfriars, London, to Become Humble Suitors to Your
Lordship for Removing the Playhouse in the Said Blackfriars:

1. The shopkeepers in divers places suffer much, being
hindered by the great recourse to the plays (especially of
coaches) from selling their commodities, and having their
wares many times broken and beaten off their stalls.

2. The recourse of coaches is many times so great that the
inhabitants cannot in an afternoon take in any provision of
beer, coals, wood, or hay, the streets being known to be so
exceeding straight and narrow.

3. The passage through Ludgate to the water [i.e., Water
Lane] is many times stopped up, people in their ordinary
going much endangered, quarrels and bloodshed many times
occasioned, and many disorderly people towards night
gathered thither, under pretense of attending and waiting
for those at the plays.

4. If there should happen any misfortune of fire, there is
not likely any present order could possibly be taken, for
the disorder and number of the coaches, since there could be
no speedy passage made for quenching the fire, to the
endangering of the parish and city.

5. Christenings and burials, which usually are in the
afternoon, are many times disturbed, and persons endangered
in that part, which is the greatest part of the parish.

6. Persons of honor and quality that dwell in the paris