To the Right Honble Sir Edwd. Bellamy< no role > Kt Lord Mayor of the City of London and
to the Worshipfull his Majestys Justices of the peace for the said City in their General
Quarter Sessions of the peace Assembled

The Humble petition and Appeal of Samll Patison< 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 Occupier of one House
within the said parish the rents and taxes of wch. are paid your Petitioner who for the year 1734 hath been rated by the
Church Wardens and overseers of the said parish in much Larger sums of money than he ought to have been towards
the releife of the poor of the said parish which said Rate or Assessment your Petitioner Humbly conceives is in many
respects unequall Arbitary and Illegall & Pticularly that diverse Inhabitants and Occupyers of Houses within the
said Parish some of wch. pay as Large and others much Larger rents than your Petitioner whose Circumstances do Exceed
or at Least Equall your Petitioners have for that year been rated in much less sums of money than your Petitioner
and your Petitioner further Sheweth that the Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor of the said Parish for the said
Year 1734 have made up their Accounts for the said Year and procured the same to be Allowed notwithstanding
many Charges and Disbursments and therein contained which me contrary to Law and ought not be have been allowed
by reason whereof great Sums of money which out to have been applyed to the releife of the poor of the said
parish are made use of and disburst for other purposes than by Law they ought to be and thereby the Charge upon
the Inhabitants of the said parish and particularly upon your Petitioner is greatly Increased and the rate thereby
become much more burdensome and as your Petitioner conceives illegall by reason of which unwarrantable
Overcharge

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Your Petitioner therefore conceiving himself greatly aggreived by
the 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 the
said Accounts disallowed 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.

The following persons are Inhabitants & Occupiers of Houses in the said parish of much Larger rents yet pays less
to the poor than the Appel. as by foll Plumbers appears Vizt:

John Bosworth< no role > Esqr . pays rent P ann for 2 Houses£100:0s:0d
and to the poor for the same P week£0:2s:0d
Wm. Nevile< no role > Oxford Arms him rest & ann£150:0s:0d
and to the poor P week£0:2s:6d
Wm. Bowan< no role > rent P Ann£40:0s:0d
and to the poor P week£0:1s:0d
Saml. Woolastone< no role > Rent P Ann£40:0s:0d
and to the poor P week£0:1s:0d
Francis Clark< no role > rent P ann£32:0s:0d
and to the poor£0:0s:0d
John Finch< no role > rent P Ann£2s:0s:0d
and to the poor weekly£0:0s:8d
Philip Harris< no role > rent P ann£30:0s:0d
and to the poor weekly£0:0s:8d
Hugh Rositer< no role > & Pr. rent & ann£40:0s:0d
and to the poor£0:1s:0d
John Godfrey< no role > & pr. rent & ann£100:0s:0d
and to the poor weekly£0:3s:0d

Henry Shepherd< no role > & pr. rent P ann£70:0s:0d
and to the poor weekly£0:2s:0d
Richd. Saunders< no role > pr. rent P ann£80:0s:0d
and to the poor£0:2s:0d
Robt. Copping< no role > pays rent P ann£40:0s:0d
and to the poor£0:1s:4d
Edwd. Brown< no role > pays rent P ann£50:0s:0d
and to the poor£0:1s:0d
Henry Bredlay< no role > pays rent P Ann£30:0s:0d
and to the poor only P week£0:0s:4d
Robt. Rustall< no role > pays rent P ann£35:0s:0d
and to the poor weekly£0:1s:0d
Francis Humphries< no role > rent P ann£40:0s:0d
and to the poor weekly£0:1s:0d
John Blake< no role > rents£30:0s:0d
and to the poor£0:0s:0d
Henry Plowman< no role > rents£100:0s:0d
and to the poor£0:1s:0d
John Higes< no role > rents£30:0s:0d
and to the poor£0:0s:0d

By those Pticulars the In equally of the rate doth appear
we have given the Church Wardens a Copy of those particulars