To The Right Honourable John Barber< no role > Esquires
Lord Mayor of the City of London And the Rest
of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the
said City In their Generall Quarter Sessions of
the Peace Assembled.

The Humble Petition and
Appeale of Roger Pemberton< no role > an
Inhabitant in the Parish of Saint
Katherine Coleman London

Sheweth

That your Petitioner hath Occupyed the
Business of a Stable-Keeper in the said Parish for Upwards of
Twenty years last past Which Employ Requires a large Spott
of Ground for the Accomodation of his Customers, for which he
is Oblidged to pay his Landlord One hundred and Twenty
Pounds a year And being Old Wooden Buildings are Daily
Requireing Repairs Soe that Considering the moneys your
Petitioner hath laid out on the Premisses Together with the
said Rent and Repairs The whole One year with another
Lyes your Petitioner in the Sume of Two hundred and Thirty
Pounds And your Petitioner Doth Averr That since he
hath Enjoyed the said premisses He hath not One year
with Another made more of the same than the said Sume
of Two hundred and Thirty Pounds

That Till of late years you Petitioner
hath been moderately Rated to the poor And the Premisses he
now Enjoys never Exceeding the Sume of Three Pounds a year
And Particularly in the years 1725. 26. 27. 28 and 29.
your Petitioner was but Rated at Forty Shillings a year And
Mr: Faller at Three Pounds Eight Shillings a year That in the
year 1730 your Petitioner was Raised to Three Pounds a year
and Mr. Fuller still Continued at Three pounds Eight Shillings
That in the years 1731. and 32. your Petitioner was further
Raised to a pound Rate of Ninety four pounds a year and Mr.
Fuller Still continued at Sixty Eight pounds a year

That from the facts before Stated and your
Petitioner well knowing Mr. Fuller to be of much greater Ability
than your Petitioner And humbly thinking himselfe Aggrieved
Did Appeale to the said Rate last year which being Heard
your Petitioner was Adjudged Aggrieved And It was Recomended
he should pay four pounds as formerly