City of London Sessions:
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28th September 1733 - 23rd December 1734

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To the Rt. Honble Sr William Billers< no role > Knt . Lord
Mayor of the City of London and to the Rt. Worpll
the rest of his Maties Justices of the Peace for the
said City in their General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace Assembled.

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Henry Hall Cranley< no role >
Thomas Kerby< no role > Samuel Still< no role > Samuel Ewer< no role > George
Rogers
< no role > and John Cooper< no role >

Sheweth


That your petrs. being Inhabitants of the parish of St.
Ethelburga London are rated by the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the poor for & towards releif of the poor of the
said parish in a rate or Assessment called the poors rate,
which rate is made for more money than is need full to
defray the expences of maintaining & supporting the poor of
the said Parish and is unequally rated with respect to your
petrs and several others of the Inhabitants of the said
parish, the rents of whose houses and stock in trade are
superior to your petrs. The namesof those your
petrs conceive are under charged in proportion to your
petrs are Peter Roberts< no role > Abraham Daking< no role > Matthew Woodward< no role >
Isaac Jones< no role > &Broughton

Your Petrs. Conceiving themselves Aggreived by
the sd Rate or Assessment humbly Appeal to this
Honble Court for Relief.




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