To the Right Honourable John Barber< no role > Esqr Lord Mayor of the City of London
and to the Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City in
their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace assembled.

The humble Petition and Appeale of Samuel Pattison< no role > an
Inhabitant of the Parish of Christ Church London

Sheweth

That your Petitioner is an Inhabitant of the said Parish of Christ
Church and an Occupyer of one House within the said Parish the Rent and
Taxes of which are paid by your Petitioner who is now rated by the Church-
Wardens and Oversers of the said Parish in much larger Sums of money
than he ought to be towards the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish Which
said Rate or Assessment your Petitioner humbly conceives is very unequal
arbitrary and illegabin many respects and particularly for that diverse
Inhabitants and Occupyers of Houses within the said Parish some of which
pay as large and others much larger Rents than your Petitioner and whose
Trade and Circumstances do exceed or at least equal your Petitioner's are rated
in much less Sums of Money than your Petitioner And also for that the said
Rate or Assessment is not made equal according to the Rents of the Houses
and Circumstances of the Inhabitants within the said Parish but at the
Discretion of the Church Wardens and Overseers of the said Parish.

Your Petitioner therefore conceiving himself greatly
aggrieved by the Rae or Assessment so made by the
said Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
said Parish for and towards the necessary Relief of he
Poor of the said Parish Humbly prays that the said
Rate may be quashed and that your Petitioner may
be relieved in the Premisses in such manner as to this
Court shall seem just and fitting.

And your Petitioner shall ever pray and so forth