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<p n="51">To the Right Honble Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n51-1">Edwd. Bellamy</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n51-1" type="surname" value="Bellamy"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n51-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15046_occ24">Kt</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_occ24" type="occupation" value="Kt"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15046_occ25">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15046_geo47">City of London</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
to the Worshipfull his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15046_occ26">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the said City in their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions of the peace Assembled</p>
<p n="52">The Humble petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n52-1">Samll Patison</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n52-1" type="given" value="Samll"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n52-1" type="surname" value="Patison"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n52-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
an Inhabitant<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15046_geo48">Parish of Christ Church</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_geo48" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
London</p>
<p n="53"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner is an Inhabitant of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15046_geo49">parish of Christ Church</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_geo49" type="placeName" value="parish of Christ Church"></interp>
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and Occupier of one House<lb></lb>
within the said parish the rents and taxes of wch. are paid your Petitioner who for the year 1734 hath been rated by the<lb></lb>
Church Wardens and overseers of the said parish in much Larger sums of money than he ought to have been towards<lb></lb>
the releife of the poor of the said parish which said Rate or Assessment your Petitioner Humbly conceives is in many<lb></lb>
respects unequall Arbitary and Illegall & Pticularly that diverse Inhabitants and Occupyers of Houses within the<lb></lb>
said Parish some of wch. pay as Large and others much Larger rents than your Petitioner whose Circumstances do Exceed<lb></lb>
or at Least Equall your Petitioners have for that year been rated in much less sums of money than your Petitioner<lb></lb>
and your Petitioner further Sheweth that the Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor of the said Parish for the said<lb></lb>
Year 1734 have made up their Accounts for the said Year and procured the same to be Allowed notwithstanding<lb></lb>
many Charges and Disbursments and therein contained which me contrary to Law and ought not be have been allowed<lb></lb>
by reason whereof great Sums of money which out to have been applyed to the releife of the poor of the said<lb></lb>
parish are made use of and disburst for other purposes than by Law they ought to be and thereby the Charge upon<lb></lb>
the Inhabitants of the said parish and particularly upon your Petitioner is greatly Increased and the rate thereby<lb></lb>
become much more burdensome and as your Petitioner conceives illegall by reason of which unwarrantable<lb></lb>
Overcharge</p>
<p n="54"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
The Appl. Occupies one House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15046_geo50">Warwick lane</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_geo50" type="placeName" value="Warwick lane"></interp>
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<lb></lb>
in the said parish and pays for the same to ann<hi rend="braceResult"> 20:0:0<lb></lb>
And is Assessed to the poor weekly0:1:6</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="55">{<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner therefore conceiving himself greatly aggreived by<lb></lb>
the rate or Assessment so made by the Church Wardens and Overseers<lb></lb>
of the said parish for and towards the necessary releife of the poor of<lb></lb>
the said parish humbly prays that the said rate may be quashed and the<lb></lb>
said Accounts disallowed And that your Petitioner may be releived in<lb></lb>
the premisses in such manner as to this Court shall seem just and<lb></lb>
fitting</p>
<p n="56">And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.</p>
<p n="57">The following persons are Inhabitants & Occupiers of Houses in the said parish of much Larger rents yet pays less<lb></lb>
to the poor than the Appel. as by foll Plumbers appears Vizt:</p>
<p n="58"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n58-1">John Bosworth</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-1" type="surname" value="Bosworth"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15046_occ27">Esqr</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_occ27" type="occupation" value="Esqr"></interp>
. pays rent P ann for 2 Houses£100:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor for the same P week£0:2s:0d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n58-9">Wm. Nevile</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-9" type="given" value="Wm"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-9" type="surname" value="Nevile"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-9" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15046_geo51">Oxford Arms</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_geo51" type="placeName" value="Oxford Arms"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_geo51" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
him rest & ann£150:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor P week£0:2s:6d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n58-2">Wm. Bowan</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-2" type="given" value="Wm"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-2" type="surname" value="Bowan"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
rent P Ann£40:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor P week£0:1s:0d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n58-3">Saml. Woolastone</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-3" type="given" value="Saml"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-3" type="surname" value="Woolastone"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Rent P Ann£40:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor P week£0:1s:0d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n58-4">Francis Clark</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-4" type="given" value="Francis"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-4" type="surname" value="Clark"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
rent P ann£32:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor£0:0s:0d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n58-5">John Finch</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-5" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-5" type="surname" value="Finch"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-5" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
rent P Ann£2s:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor weekly£0:0s:8d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n58-6">Philip Harris</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-6" type="given" value="Philip"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-6" type="surname" value="Harris"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-6" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
rent P ann£30:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor weekly£0:0s:8d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n58-7">Hugh Rositer</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-7" type="given" value="Hugh"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-7" type="surname" value="Rositer"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-7" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
& Pr. rent & ann£40:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor£0:1s:0d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n58-8">John Godfrey</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-8" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-8" type="surname" value="Godfrey"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n58-8" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
& pr. rent & ann£100:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor weekly£0:3s:0d</p>
<p n="59"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n59-1">Henry Shepherd</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
& pr. rent P ann£70:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor weekly£0:2s:0d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n59-2">Richd. Saunders</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-2" type="surname" value="Saunders"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
pr. rent P ann£80:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor£0:2s:0d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n59-9">Robt. Copping</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-9" type="given" value="Robt"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-9" type="surname" value="Copping"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-9" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
pays rent P ann£40:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor£0:1s:4d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n59-10">Edwd. Brown</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-10" type="surname" value="Brown"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-10" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
pays rent P ann£50:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor£0:1s:0d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n59-3">Henry Bredlay</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-3" type="given" value="Henry"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-3" type="surname" value="Bredlay"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
pays rent P Ann£30:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor only P week£0:0s:4d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n59-4">Robt. Rustall</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-4" type="surname" value="Rustall"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15046_n59-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
pays rent P ann£35:0s:0d<lb></lb>
and to the poor weekly£0:1s:0d<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15046_n59-5">Francis Humphries</rs>
<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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