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To the Right Honourable
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Rober Alsop
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his Majestys
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for the same
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City in their General Quarter Session Assembled.
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The Humble Petition & Appeal of the Mayor and
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Comonally and Citizens of the
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Governors of
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the Possessions Revenue and Goods of the Hospital of
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of England the Sixth of
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That by a Rate or Assessment made on the Ninth Day of
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April 1752 for the Relief of the Poor of the
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for 12 Weeks comencing from the 5th. Day of January to the 29th.
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Day of March inclusive Your Petrs. were by the Name the Mayor and Comonalty and Citizens
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of the
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Governors of Christs Hospital Rated and Assessed towards
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the said Relief for and in respect of the Sick Ward formerly 5 Houses.
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That the Ground whereon the said Sick Ward now Stands and on
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which the said 5 Houses before they were Demolished and pulled down heretofore
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stood was formerly part of the
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and had from the time of the Foundation
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of the said Hospital (which was near 200 Years ago) belonged thereto and lyes
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within the said
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That the said 5. Houses going to Decay and the Exigences and
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Occasions of the Hospital Requiring it the Governors of the said
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Hospital thought proper to Demolish the said Houses and to Convert the said
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Ground to the purpose before mentioned.
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That in regard the said Hospl. is a House of Charity and the Sick
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Ward before mentioned is part thereof
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Your Petr. therefore conceiving themselves
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to be Agrieved by the said Rate do humbly Appeal
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against the same and pray Your Lordship and
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this Honourable Court to take the Premises into
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Consideration and to Grand them such Relief therein
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as to Yr. Lordp. & this Honoble Court shall seem meet
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And yr. Petr. will ever Pray Etc.
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