London

At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for
the City of London by Adjournment at Guild hall of the
said City of Tuesday the fourteenth day of January 1734 .

Upon hearing the petition and Appeal of Burrell Blythe< no role > an
Inhabitant in the parish of Christ Church London setting forth that
he is now Rated by the Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor of
the said parish in much larger Sumes of money than be ought to
be towards the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish And that diverse
Inhabitants & Occupyers of Houses in the said parish paying as
large and much larger Rents than he the said Burrell Blythe and
whose Trade and Circumstances do Exceed or at least equall his the
said Burrell Blythes< no role > are Rated in much less Sumes of Money than
he the said Burrell Blythe And the Rates are not made Equall
according to the rents of the Houses and Circumstances of the
people within the said parish but at the discretion of the said
Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor of the said parish
And praying that the said Rate may be Quashed It is therefore
now Ordered by this Court that the said Petition and Appeal be
Adjourned till the net Sessions of the peace of an said Lord the
King to be held for the said City of London And that in the mean
time the Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor Do permitt and
Suffer the Appellant to Inspect their Books of Rates and transcribe
the names of such Persons Unequally Rated to be produced to this
Court on hearing the said Appeal And that the Appellant do give
the Church Wardens And Overseers of the poor a true copy of
such Transcript that this Court may be the better Enabled to
determine the Same.

Jackson.