To the Right Honourable Sr John Ward< no role > Knight Lord Mayor
of the Citty of London and the rest of his Majesties Justices of
the Peace for the said Citty in General Quarter Sessions Assembled

The humble, Petition and Appeale of Thomas Bennett< no role > Doctor in Divenity
Mayor of the Parish of St Gyles Cripplegate Felix Feast< no role > Esqr Edmond Joyner< no role >
Thomas Catmur< no role > Richard: Farrington< no role > Richard Harrish< no role > John Pattison< no role >
Thomas Roberts< no role > Thomas Rowles< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > Thomas Burge< no role >
Toker Woodward< no role > Richard West< no role > Humphry Gregory< no role > Robert Smith< no role >
Phillip Goodall< no role > Samuel Cox< no role > John Haynes< no role > Thomas Peddington< no role > William
Boulton< no role > Francis Morgan< no role > and William Genniker< no role > Inhabitants of
That part of the said Parish of St. Gyles Cripplegate as is within the
Citty of London on behalf of themselves and the rest of the Inhabitants
of that part of the said Parish

Humbly Sheweth

That a Rate being lately made on the
Inhabitants the aforesaid part of the said Parish for the reliefe of the Poor, according
to a pound Rate your Petitioners are advised such method of rating is unequal andhe
his adjudgedillegal in London

That by the same rate some hundreds of poor People inhabiting
in that part of the said Parish and who have no Legal Settlement there and who
an likely to become chargeable to that part of the said Parish, are assessed, which
may tend to the great Damage of that part of the said Parish in General and to
your Petitioners in perticuler by giving a Settlement to such a great number of poor
People in a Parish too much over burtherned with poor already.

That the said Rate is also unequal in charging some of your
Petitioners both as to their Rents and Estates more in proportion than other the
Inhabitants of that part of the said Parish, and others of your Petitioners for
much more than the Rents and Estates they possess and the same Rate as your
Petitioners humbly conceive and are advised is nor made according to Law

That the said part of the said parish in general as well
as your Petitioners in particular being agrieved by the said Rate, and ye Petitioners
doubting not but to prove the said several Allegations

Dop humbly pray this honoble Court that the same
Rate may be Quashed or your Petitioners otherwise relieved
touching the said Rate) in such manner as your Lordship
and Worships shall think fitt

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc

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