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11th July 1732 - 18th January 1734

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Now Notwithstanding Your Petitioners former
Rates Both to Church and Poor never Amounted to
that Sume your Petitioner was ready to Comply
with the said Order And hath paid two pounds
Seven Shillings in part of the said Sume of four
pounds which your Petitioner was soe Ordered to pay
and at the same time Tendered the Remaining Sume of one pound
Thirteen Shillings Which the then Church-Wardens and
Overseers of the poor of the said Parish Refused to take
and still Insist upon four Pounds over and above the
said sume of Two Pounds Seven Shillings As alsoe
persist in Rateing your Petitioner this year at
Ninety Pounds a year And Still Continue the said
Mr. Fuller at Sixty Eight Pounds a year Although
in the Land Tax Books for these Severall years
your Petitioner hath been Rated at Sixty Pounds
a year and noe more and the said Mr. Fuller at
Sixty Eight Pounds a Year

Wherefore your Petitioner
thinking himselfe Aggrieved Doth Humbly
Appeale from the said Rate and Assessment
made by the Church-Wardens and Overseers
of the poor of the Said Parish of Saint
Katherine Coleman for this present year
To your Lordshipp and Worshipps Susannah
as the same is an Unequall Rate as before
Set forth And humbly prays he may be
heard in the Premisses And That the
Church-Wardens and Overseers of the poor
of the Parish of St. Catherine Coleman London
may Appear before your Lordshipp and
Worshipps to Hear your Judgement and
Determination touching this Appeale
And to Abide by the Order of this Court therein

And your Petitioner Shall Ever pray




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