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7th December 1721 - 22nd December 1722

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To the Right Honble Sr Wm Stewart< no role > Knt Lord Mayor
of the City of London and to the Rest of his Maties Justices
of the peace at their Genl Quarter Sessions of ye peace Assembled

The humble Petition and Appeal of the Church
Wardens & Overseers at the poor of the parish of St
George Botolph Lane London

Sheweth


Thatby Vict.for many years past the Sum of Six pound
has yearly been ordered to be paid at the General Quarter Sessions
for London [..] to the parish of Allhallows on the wall
London for the relief of their poor of ye sd parish

That Your petitioners conceive themselves aggrieved
by the sd Order their poor being much increased
and their Rates much higher then at the time
of making [..] the sd Order Several of their
Inhabitants being gone to decay & the Charge of
the sd parish much increased and therefore most
humbly Appeal to your Honr & Worps therefrom

And therefore humbly pray this Court will Order
that the consideration hereof may be Adjourned to the
next general or Quarter Sessions and all parties concerned may
then Attend & abide the determinacon of the Court
touching the sd Order

And they Shall ever pray Etc




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