To the Right Honoble Sr. Francis Child< no role > Knt . Lord Mayor of the
City of London and the Rest of his Maties Justices of the Peace of the
Same City in their Generall Quarter Sessions Assembled

The humble Petition & appeale of Roger Pemberton< no role >
an Inhabitant in the parish of St. Katherine
Coleman London

Sheweth

Your Peticoner is a Stable Keeper and lives in the said Parish where
he hath been a parishoner for these twenty years last past That his
Business of Stable Keeping Obliges him to have a Large Spott of ground
backwards four the Alley where he lives for the conveniency of his
Customers who Setts up horses at Livery with him out of which Your
Peticoner cannot make much more than what will allow him a
Maintanance [..]

That dureing the time aforesaid he hath always paid to the poor
of the said parish & never made any Exception thereto untill of late
Years that your Peticoner hath been Rated beyond what his Circumstances
will admitt of paying unless he doth Injustice to himselfe & his family

That by the Assessment of this Year Your Peticoner is Rated
at four pounds four Shillings which is
almost as much again as what he hath been rated in forme Rates altho'
there are Mr. Ruffer Mr. Boddicoate and Severall others in the said Parish
(of much Greater Ability & worth & carrry on very great Dealings there
at the same Rates they formerly were

Wherefore Yor. Peticoner thinking himselfe aggreived Both
humbly Appeale from the Rate and Assessment made by the Churchwardens
& Overseers of the poor of the said parish of St. Kath: Coleman London for this
present Year as being unequall to yor. Lordship & Worships & humbly prays he may be
heard in the Prmese that yor. Lordship & Worships will be so good as to
order the Said Churchwardens & Overseers to appear at a Certain Day to hear and
abide by the Judgment & Determinacon of your Lordship & Worships
touching this appeale & That in the mean time Yor. Peticoner may have
Leave to inspect the Books belonging to the poors rate of the said Parish

And Yor. Peticoner shall ever pray Etc.

Roger Pemberton< no role >