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To the Right Honble Sir
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Edwd. Bellamy
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Quarter Sessions of the peace Assembled
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The Humble petition and Appeal of
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an Inhabitant
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner is an Inhabitant of the said
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parish of Christ Church
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and Occupier of one House
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within the said parish the rents and taxes of wch. are paid your Petitioner who for the year 1734 hath been rated by the
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Church Wardens and overseers of the said parish in much Larger sums of money than he ought to have been towards
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the releife of the poor of the said parish which said Rate or Assessment your Petitioner Humbly conceives is in many
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respects unequall Arbitary and Illegall & Pticularly that diverse Inhabitants and Occupyers of Houses within the
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said Parish some of wch. pay as Large and others much Larger rents than your Petitioner whose Circumstances do Exceed
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or at Least Equall your Petitioners have for that year been rated in much less sums of money than your Petitioner
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and your Petitioner further Sheweth that the Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor of the said Parish for the said
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Year 1734 have made up their Accounts for the said Year and procured the same to be Allowed notwithstanding
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many Charges and Disbursments and therein contained which me contrary to Law and ought not be have been allowed
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by reason whereof great Sums of money which out to have been applyed to the releife of the poor of the said
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parish are made use of and disburst for other purposes than by Law they ought to be and thereby the Charge upon
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the Inhabitants of the said parish and particularly upon your Petitioner is greatly Increased and the rate thereby
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become much more burdensome and as your Petitioner conceives illegall by reason of which unwarrantable
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Overcharge
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in the said parish and pays for the same to ann
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Your Petitioner therefore conceiving himself greatly aggreived by
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the rate or Assessment so made by the Church Wardens and Overseers
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of the said parish for and towards the necessary releife of the poor of
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the said parish humbly prays that the said rate may be quashed and the
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said Accounts disallowed And that your Petitioner may be releived in
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the premisses in such manner as to this Court shall seem just and
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fitting
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And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.
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The following persons are Inhabitants & Occupiers of Houses in the said parish of much Larger rents yet pays less
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to the poor than the Appel. as by foll Plumbers appears Vizt:
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John Bosworth
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. pays rent P ann for 2 Houses£100:0s:0d
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Wm. Nevile
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him rest & ann£150:0s:0d
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Wm. Bowan
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Francis Clark
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"gender"
value
=
"male"
>
</
interp
>
pays rent P ann£35:0s:0d
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
and to the poor weekly£0:1s:0d
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
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rs
type
=
"persName"
id
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-5"
>
Francis Humphries
</
rs
>
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interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-5"
type
=
"given"
value
=
"Francis"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-5"
type
=
"surname"
value
=
"Humphries"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-5"
type
=
"gender"
value
=
"male"
>
</
interp
>
rent P ann£40:0s:0d
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
and to the poor weekly£0:1s:0d
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
<
rs
type
=
"persName"
id
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-6"
>
John Blake
</
rs
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-6"
type
=
"given"
value
=
"John"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-6"
type
=
"surname"
value
=
"Blake"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-6"
type
=
"gender"
value
=
"male"
>
</
interp
>
rents£30:0s:0d
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
and to the poor£0:0s:0d
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
<
rs
type
=
"persName"
id
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-7"
>
Henry Plowman
</
rs
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-7"
type
=
"given"
value
=
"Henry"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-7"
type
=
"surname"
value
=
"Plowman"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-7"
type
=
"gender"
value
=
"male"
>
</
interp
>
rents£100:0s:0d
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
and to the poor£0:1s:0d
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
<
rs
type
=
"persName"
id
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-8"
>
John Higes
</
rs
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-8"
type
=
"given"
value
=
"John"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-8"
type
=
"surname"
value
=
"Higes"
>
</
interp
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n59-8"
type
=
"gender"
value
=
"male"
>
</
interp
>
rents£30:0s:0d
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
and to the poor£0:0s:0d
</
p
>
<
p
n
=
"60"
>
By those Pticulars the In equally of the rate doth appear
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
we have given the Church Wardens a Copy of those particulars
</
p
>
</
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>
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