To the Right Honourable Sir Edward
Bellamy< no role > Knight Lord Mayor of the City of London
and to the Rest of his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the said City and Liberties therefm
their General Quarter Sessions Assembeld

The Humble Petition and appear of John
Giles< no role > , John Sampkins< no role > , Peter Boursett< no role >
Robert Nicholls< no role > , Thomas Pell< no role > and
Joseph Burston< no role > .

Sheweth

That your Petitioners being Inhabitants and Householders in
the Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldersgate London were in an Assessment
made by the Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish the twenty
Ninth Day of May 1734. Rated or Assessed for and towards the Relief of the Poor of
the said Parish in the Severall Sums of Money therein mentioned which Rater's
not only Unequal but also (as your Petitioners are advised) in many respects
Illegal and unwarrantable Wherefore your Petitioners Conceive themselves
agrieved by the said Sesson Tax as Illegal and unequal said do appeal to your
Lordship and Worships therefrom.

Mr James Reads< no role > and John Giles< no role > Churchwardens
of the said Parish Dohereby concent that the
said Rate may be Quashed according the
Prayer of the said Petition

And humbly Pray that the said Rate
may be Vacated on that your Petitioners may
be otherwise relieved in the Premisses as this
Honourable Court shall think fit.

And your Petitioners shall over Pray etc.