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To the Right Honoble Sir
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John Williams
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Lord Mayor
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and to the
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rest of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City
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in their general Quarter Sessions of the Peace assembled
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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George
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Sheweth
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That your Petr. & Appellant is an Inhabitant of a Messuage
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in the Parish of
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Saint Magdalen
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by Lease for a
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long Term of Years at and under the Yearly ground Rent of four pounds
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payable to the said Parish for the use of the Poor there
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That your Petr. & Appellant hath been usually charged in the yearly
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Rate or Assessment to the poor of the said Parish for and in respect of
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his said Messuage or Dwelling house at the sum of Sixteen Shillings and
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no more being one Shilling in the pound according to what your Pets. hath
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been yearly charged to the King's Tax for and in respect of his said
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Messuage or Dwelling House
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That your Petr. and Appellant hath constantly and very willingly
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paid the said Yearly Rate and Assessment without Complaint altho' the
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same is more than what he conceives he ought to be rated & assessed at for the
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Sixteen pounds being full yearly value of the said Messuage or Dwelling
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House he ought not to be rated or assessed for the ground rent paid to the
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of the said Poor
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That by the rate & Assessment made for the Poor of the said Parish this
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Year your Petr: & Appellant is rated and assessed at the sum of three pounds and
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five Shillings which is more than four times the usual Rates & Assessment
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charged on him heretofore and the other Parishioners & Inhabitants of the Sd.
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Parish are not rated & assessed in Proportion thereunto
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Your. Petr. & Appellt. therefore conceives that he is over rated
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aggrieved in & by the said Rate or Assessmt. And doth humbly
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appeal therefrom to this Honoble Court that he may be relieved
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therefore
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in the Premises
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And he shall ever Pray Etc
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