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The Humble Petition and appeal of
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Situate in the Crescent near
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in the Parish aforesaid and holds the same as Tenant thereof at
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the Yearly Raik Rent of Fifty Pounds being the full value thereof, but your Petitioner doth not keep any
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Shop or Warehouse in the said premisses or any part thereof.
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That Your Petitioner as such Occupier of the Premisses aforesaid is by the Rate or Assessment made for
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the present year for the Relief of the Poor of the same Parish Rated and Assessed at the Sum of Five Shillings
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a Week being at the Rate of Thirteen Pounds by the Year.
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, and which they severally hold as Tenants thereof at
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the Yearly Rent of Fifty Pounds or thereabouts and which said several Premisses with the Appurtenances are
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in respect as well to the Costs of the Building thereof as to the Goodness of their Situations for Trade well
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worth the above several Rents.
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the said Rate or Assessment Rated or Assessed to the Poor of the said Parish in the Sum of Two Shillings and
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Six pence a week for the present Year and no more whereby there is a very great and manifest disproportion
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and inequality in the said Rate or Assessment between the said several Rates or Assessments upon the
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severally and the said Rate or Assessmt.
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upon your Petitioner to the great injury and detriment of your Petitioner.
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Your Petitioner therefore thinking himself aggrieved by the said
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Rate or Assessment most humbly Appeals against the same
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and humbly prays that the said Rate or Assessment upon your
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Petitioner may be lessened and reduced to a Level with the said
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Rates or Assessments upon the said
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who pay an equal Rent
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with your Petitioner for their several Premisses aforesaid or that
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your Worships will grant such other Relief to your Petitioner
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in the Premisses as to your Worships shall seem meet
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And your Petitioner shall ever Pray
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