To the Right Honourable Sr. William Stewart< no role > Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London and to the Rest of his
Majestys Justices of the Peace at their generall Quarter Sessions Assembled.

The Humble Petition of the severall persons whose Names are hereunto sett being Parishioners
of the Parish of St. Botolphs Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishopsgate in the sd. City.

Sheweth

That George Franckling< no role > and William Skerett< no role > John Preston< no role > John Knighton< no role > Henry Cartwright< no role > & Thomas Hughes< no role > being [..] prtending to be Church
Wardens & Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid for the present year 1722 about the Month of May last past made a quarterly Rate or
Assessmt. on Your Petitioners and the rest of the Parishioners & Inhabitants of the sd. Parish amounting to the Sume of £600 and upwards for or
towards or under prtence of relieveing the Poor of the said Parish or for levying or raising money by Vertue or in pursuance of the Statute
made in the forty third year of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth relateing to the reliefe of the Poor & setting them to work and Sr. Edward Becher< no role > Knt.
Alderman of the sd. Ward hath confirmed the same Rate or Assessmt. and only one quarter part thereof is yet collected or demanded or endeavoured
to be received That the sd. Persons have also lately made another such Rate or Assessmt. on Yor. Petitioners & the Rest of the Parishioners & Inhabitants
of the sd. parish amounting also in the whole to the Sume of £600 & upwards and prtend & give out That the sd. Sr. Edwd. Bether hath likewise confirmed the same.

That the said George Franckling< no role > hath demanded of Your Petitioners the severall Sumes in the said last mentioned Rate on them respectively
charged and Threatens to Levy the same on their Goods and Chattells by Vertue of the said Statute But refused to show the same Rate to your
Petitioners or to inform them by vertue of what Authority the same is made or what necessity there is for raising so large a sume of
Money at is thereby intended to be raised.

Wherefore and for that our Petitioners are apprehensive that the Money raised & to be
raised by the said Rates or one of them is intended to be applyed for some sinister or other
Uses not Warrted. by the sd. Statute and for diverse other Reason Partiality's & Abuses in and
concerning both the said Rates Yor. Petitioners do hereby humbly appeal from the sd. last
mentioned Rate to Yor. Lordship & Worships And pray that Your Worships would Quash & make
void the same or take such order therein at to Yor. Worships shall be thought convenient according
to the form of the said Statute.

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.

Gerrard Hotley< no role >
Samuel Adams< no role >
William Cowley< no role >
Benj. Vastan< no role >
John Kipling< no role >
Jno. Willmott< no role >
David Wane< no role >
Rowland Draper< no role >
Robert Welham< no role >
Thomas Ford< no role >
Henry Aldwin< no role >
Wm. Dutton< no role >
Edmund Baker< no role >
John Moore< no role >
Robert Freelane< no role >
[..]

Thomas Long< no role >
George Larkin< no role >
Hum: Burroughs< no role >
Andrew Bird< no role >
Anne Morden< no role >
James Bedberre< no role >
Thomas Greenaway< no role >
Richard Hewett< no role >
Mary Goode< no role >
James Best< no role >
James Wortham< no role >
Daniel Wormlaighton< no role >
John Horrobine< no role >
Thomas Hewett< no role >
Georgr. Phillips< no role >
[..]

Benja. Bealing< no role >
Henry Chappell< no role >
Richard Phillips< no role >
John Bowers< no role >
William Munns< no role >
Richard Miller< no role >
Humphrey Cordin< no role >
Samll. Mackerness< no role >
Richard Blackwell< no role >
Robert Osmond< no role >
John Lillie< no role >
John Chewter< no role >
Samll. Sureties< no role >
William Coles< no role >
Richard Prow< no role >
[..]

Samuel Barry< no role >
Daniel Malin< no role >
Anne Messinger< no role >
James Overton< no role >
William Cranke< no role >
Edward Coggs< no role >
John Purster< no role >
William Hickman< no role >
Joshuah Knight< no role >
Thomas Smith< no role >
Richard Banister< no role >
Samll. Green< no role >
Daniel Cabanell< no role >
Thomas Meadows< no role >
Richard Cox< no role >
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