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<p n="212"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">At <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo105">Guildhall</rs>
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London</note>
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To the Right Honble The Lord Mayor<lb></lb>
Aldermen and the rest of the Justices of<lb></lb>
Our Lord the King in the General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace in and for the City of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo106">London</rs>
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Assembled.</p>
<p n="213">The Humble Petition and appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n213-1">Francis Aiskell</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the Crescent next <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo107">the Minories</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Botolph<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo108">Aldgate</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo109">London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ46">Gentleman</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="214"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner now Possesses and resides in a new Built Dwelling House with the Appurtenancy<lb></lb>
Situate in the Crescent near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo110">the Minories</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid and holds the same as Tenant thereof at<lb></lb>
the Yearly Raik Rent of Fifty Pounds being the full value thereof, but your Petitioner doth not keep any<lb></lb>
Shop or Warehouse in the said premisses or any part thereof.</p>
<p n="215">That Your Petitioner as such Occupier of the Premisses aforesaid is by the Rate or Assessment made for<lb></lb>
the present year for the Relief of the Poor of the same Parish Rated and Assessed at the Sum of Five Shillings<lb></lb>
a Week being at the Rate of Thirteen Pounds by the Year.</p>
<p n="216">That there are divers other New Built Dwelling Houses well situate for Trade with Shops Warehouses<lb></lb>
and other Conveniencies with the Appurtenances situate in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo111">the Minories</rs>
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aforesaid in the said Parish and<lb></lb>
wherein great and extensive Trades are carried on particularly those in the several Occupations of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n216-4">Thomas<lb></lb>
Cathrow</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n216-1">John Dare</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n216-2">Charles Mitchell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n216-3">John Sawyer</rs>
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, and which they severally hold as Tenants thereof at<lb></lb>
the Yearly Rent of Fifty Pounds or thereabouts and which said several Premisses with the Appurtenances are<lb></lb>
in respect as well to the Costs of the Building thereof as to the Goodness of their Situations for Trade well<lb></lb>
worth the above several Rents.</p>
<p n="217">That nevertheless the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n217-1">Thomas Cathrow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n217-2">John Dare</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n217-3">Charles Mitchell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n217-4">John Sawyer</rs>
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are severally by<lb></lb>
the said Rate or Assessment Rated or Assessed to the Poor of the said Parish in the Sum of Two Shillings and<lb></lb>
Six pence a week for the present Year and no more whereby there is a very great and manifest disproportion<lb></lb>
and inequality in the said Rate or Assessment between the said several Rates or Assessments upon the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n217-5">Thomas Cathrow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n217-6">John Dare</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n217-7">Charles Mitchell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n217-8">John Sawyer</rs>
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severally and the said Rate or Assessmt.<lb></lb>
upon your Petitioner to the great injury and detriment of your Petitioner.</p>
<p n="218">Your Petitioner therefore thinking himself aggrieved by the said<lb></lb>
Rate or Assessment most humbly Appeals against the same<lb></lb>
and humbly prays that the said Rate or Assessment upon your<lb></lb>
Petitioner may be lessened and reduced to a Level with the said<lb></lb>
Rates or Assessments upon the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n218-1">Thomas Cathrow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n218-2">John Dare</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n218-3">Charles Mitchell</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n218-4">John Sawyer</rs>
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who pay an equal Rent<lb></lb>
with your Petitioner for their several Premisses aforesaid or that<lb></lb>
your Worships will grant such other Relief to your Petitioner<lb></lb>
in the Premisses as to your Worships shall seem meet</p>
<p n="219">And your Petitioner shall ever Pray</p>
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