To the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor of the
City of London and the Rest of the Worshipfull
His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said
City in their Generall Session of the peace
for the same City Assembed

The humble petition and Appeal of the Master, Governors
and Commonalty of the Mystery of Barbers of London

Sheweth

That Your Petitioners are Seized in Fee of a certain
Messuage or Tenement called or Known by the Name of
Barbers Hall situate in Monckwell Street in the Parish of
Saint Olave Silver Street London

That by a certain Rate or Assessment made for the
Relief of the poor of the said Parish on the twenty seventh day
of Aprill now last past Your Petitioners by the Description
of the Worshipfull Company of Barbers are Assessed and
Charged towards the said Relief in the Sum of Nine
Pounds four Shillings for and in Respect of the said
Messuage or Tenement and Hall for one Quarter of a
Year from the twenty fifth day of December 1772 to the
twenty fifth day of March following

That Your Petitioners are advised That the said
Rate or Assessment so made on Your Petitioners is excessive and
unequal and Your Petitioners find themselves aggrieved
thereby and therefore humbly Appeal to this Honorable Court
against the said Rate or Assessment and pray Relief in the
premisses and that this Honorable Court will be pleased
to hear and Determine this their petition and Appeal as
this present General Session of the peace

James Mary< no role > &, for the
Master, Governors and
Commonalty of the Mystery of
Barbers of London