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15th December 1731 - 30th November 1732

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That such further Order might be made therein as to the Court should seem just and fitting; That in
Pursuance of such Order the severall Churchwardens & Overseers who were living & continued in the said
Parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate were served with Copyes of the sd. Peticon severall of which Church
Wardens & Overseers Pending that Order had & Obtained or had Procured for them about 6 or 8 of the
Inhabitants to m [..] together & at their severall Meetings pretended they had Perused & Examined severall
of His Accounts of the Churchwardens & Overseers who were served with the said Order of Court and Copy
of the said Peticon And after such pretended Perusall or Examinacon the said severall and respective
Churchwardens and Overseers had and Obtained or had procured for them the Hand of Sir Edward Becher< no role >
Knight and Alderman of the Ward of Bishopsgate in which Ward the said Parish of St. Botolph without
Bishopsgate London doth Lye Signifying. his Approbacon and Allowing of the said Accounts to be just & true
without any Notice given to any or either of your Peticoners of such pretended perusall Examinacon
or Approbacon [..] withstanding severall Sumes of Money raised for the releif of the Poor have by the said
Churchwarden [..] Overseers [..] misapply [..] Converted to other Uses, as by the said Accounts
reference being [..] unto had will Appear, To the great prejudice of your Peticoners and others of the
inhabitants of the said Parish

Your Peticoners Conceiving themselves aggrieved most Humbly Appeal to this Honble
Court against the said Allowance of the said Accounts and pray this Court would Please to Order
and direct that the said severall and respective Churchwardens & Overseers whose Accounts
are passed as aforesaid do Produce the same to this Court Together with their severall
Books of Rates that such further Order may be made therein as to this Court shall
seem meet

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John Fuller< no role >
H Millman
William Snelling< no role >
Everard Fawskener< no role >
Joseph Wildigos< no role >
James Colebrooke< no role >
Rogere Mainwaring< no role >
Henry Sam Eyres< no role >
Joseph Grove< no role >
Ruds: Meyer< no role >
John Wallington< no role >
John Small< no role >
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