To the Right Honourable Rober Alsop< no role > Esqr .
Lord Mayor of the City of London and the rest of
his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the same
City in their General Quarter Session Assembled.

The Humble Petition & Appeal of the Mayor and
Comonally and Citizens of the City of London Governors of
the Possessions Revenue and Goods of the Hospital of
Edward King< no role > of England the Sixth of Christ Bridewell
and St. Thomas the Apostle .

Sheweth

That by a Rate or Assessment made on the Ninth Day of
April 1752 for the Relief of the Poor of the Parish of Christs Church in the
City of London for 12 Weeks comencing from the 5th. Day of January to the 29th.
Day of March inclusive Your Petrs. were by the Name the Mayor and Comonalty and Citizens
of the City of London Governors of Christs Hospital Rated and Assessed towards
the said Relief for and in respect of the Sick Ward formerly 5 Houses.

That the Ground whereon the said Sick Ward now Stands and on
which the said 5 Houses before they were Demolished and pulled down heretofore
stood was formerly part of the Grey Fryars and had from the time of the Foundation
of the said Hospital (which was near 200 Years ago) belonged thereto and lyes
within the said Parish of Christ Church .

That the said 5. Houses going to Decay and the Exigences and
[..] Occasions of the Hospital Requiring it the Governors of the said
Hospital thought proper to Demolish the said Houses and to Convert the said
Ground to the purpose before mentioned.

That in regard the said Hospl. is a House of Charity and the Sick
Ward before mentioned is part thereof

Your Petr. therefore conceiving themselves
to be Agrieved by the said Rate do humbly Appeal
against the same and pray Your Lordship and
this Honourable Court to take the Premises into
Consideration and to Grand them such Relief therein
as to Yr. Lordp. & this Honoble Court shall seem meet

And yr. Petr. will ever Pray Etc.

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