To the Right Honrble Francis Child< no role > Esqr. Lord
Mayor of the City of London And to the rest of his Maities
Justices of the Peace for the sd: City in their General
Quarter Sessions of the Peace assembled

The Humble Petition & Appeale of William
Martin< no role > Clerk to the Company of Black smiths
London in behalf of Himself And the said
Company

Sheweth

That the Company of Blacksmiths are an Antient Company
of this Honrble City And for many Years last past have been
year by Rated and Assessed to the Poor for & in respect of their
Hall or Mansion House Scituate on Lambeth Hill in the
Parish of St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street in London in
the Sume of forty Shillings (being one Shilling in the pound according
to what the sd: Hall hath been Charged to the Kings Tax) & no more

That the sd: Parish of St: Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street
by their Rate or Assessmt: made for the Poor of the sd: Parish
have rated and Assessed the sd: Wm: Martin< no role > for & in respect of
the said Company Hall or Mansion House ( as the Only
Inhabitant therein) for this Present Year in the Sume of four
Pounds which is Double to the Usuall rates and Assessmts:
on them heretofore made And the other Inhabitants in the sd.
Parish are not rated & Assessed in Proportion thereto

Your Petrs: therefore on behalf of himself
and the sd: Company Conceiveing themselves
Agrieved by the said Rate or Assesmt.
Humbly Appeal to this Honrble Court
to be releived in the Premes

And Yr. Petrs: shall ever pray Etc