London

At the General Session of the peace of our Lord the King holden for
the City of London at the Guildhall within the said City on Monday the
second day of December in the twenty third year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain & Before
Nathaniel Neanham< no role > Esquire Mayor of the City of London Brass Crosby< no role >
Esquire one of the Alderman of the said City James [..] one of his Majesty's
Serjeants at Law Recorder of the said City Thomas Sainsbury< no role > [..]
of the Alderman of the said City and others their fellows Justices of our said
Lord the King assigned to keep the peace of our said Lord the King within
the said City and also to hear and determine divers felonies trespasses and the
misdeed committed within the said City

Whereas at the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden
for the City of London in the Guildhall within the said City on Monday the fourteenth day of
October in the twenty second year of the require our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great
Britain Etc John Eyles< no role > Esquire Warden of his Majesty's person of the Fleet did exhibit his Petition
and Appeal setting forth that the Petitoner by a Rate or Assessment on the several Inhabitants
the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Brides in the Ward of Farrington without in the City of London
made and Assessed on the seventeenth day of April last for the releif of the poor thereof from Christmas
day to Lady day last hath been as an Inhabitant of the said parish noted and assessed to pay to the
releif of the said poor the sum of thirteen pounds Six shillings and eight pence for the said Quarter
of a Year And that by another Rate or Assessment on the several Inhabitants of the said parish not
and Assessed on the twenty sixth day of June last for the releif of the poor of the said parish
from Lady day to this Midsummer day last the Petitioner had been as an Inhabitant of the said parish
nated and assessed to pay to the releif of the said poor the sum thirteen pounds six shillings and
eight pence for the said last mentioned Quarter of a YearAnd that the Petitioner conceiving
himself aggrieved by the said Rate or Assessments the same not being equatable Rates
according to the several Rents and the property of the respective Inhabitants of the said parish
in as much as the Petitioner is rated as an Occupier at and after the Rate of four hundred pounds of
Annum and is infact only an Occpier of one Messuage or Tenement of the Yearly value of Forty
pounds and no more And therefore humbly prayed that the said Rates or Assessments as far as
the same related to the Petitioner might be quashed or set a side or that such further or other releif
might