To the Right Honourable Sir Edward Bellamy< no role > knight Lord mayor
of the City of London and to the Worshipfull his Majestys Justices
of the peace for the said City in their Generall Quarter Sessions of
the peace Assembled

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Burrell Blythe< 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 for the year one Thousand
Seven hundred and Thirty two hath been rated by the Church Wardens and
Overseers of the said parish in much larger Sumes of money than he ought
to have been towards the releif of the poor of the said parish which said Rate
or Assessment your Petitioner humbly Conceives is very unequall Arbitrary
and Illegall in many respects and particularly for that diverse Inhabitants &
Occupyers of houses within the said parish some of which pay as large and
others much larger Rent that your Petitioner and whose Trade & Circumstances
do exceed or at least Equall your Petitioners have for that year been rated in
much less Sumes of money than your Petitioner And also for that the said
Rate or Assessment is not made Equall According to the Rents of the houses
And Circumstances of the Inhabitants within the said parish but at the
diseretion of the Church Wardens And Overseers of the said parish

Your Petitioner therefore conceiving himself greatly
Aggreived by the said Rate or Assessment so made by the
Church Wardens and Overseers of the said parish for and
towards the necessary releife of the poor of the said parish
humbly prays that the said Rate may be quashed And that
your Petitioner may be Releived in the premisses in such
manner as to this Court shall seem just and fitting

And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.