London

At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our Lord the King holden for
the City of London at the Guildhall within the said City by adjournment on
Wednesday the thirtieth day of January in the twenty Second Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign, Lord George the third King of Great Britain or Before
William Plomer< no role > Esqire Mayor of the City of London James Adair< no role > Serjeant
at Law Recorder of the said City Nathaniel Newnham< no role > Esquire Thomas
Wright< no role > Esquire Aldermen of the said City and others their Fellows Justices
of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the peace of our said Lord the King
within the said City and also to hear and determine divers Felonies
Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed within the said City.

Whereas John Anderton< no role > did at a former General Quarter
Session of the Peace exhibit his petition and appeal unto this
Court setting forth that the petitioner is an Inhabitant of the Parish
of Saint Leonard East Cheap in the City of London And that by a
Rate or Assessment on the several Occupiers of Houses Lands Etc
in the said Parish of Saint Leonard East Cheap made and Assessed the
Seventh day of July [..] thousands seven hundred and righty for and
towards the necessary Relief of the poor of the said parish and for other
purposes in the several Acts of Parliament for the relief of the poor
mentioned for the Year beginning at the Feast of Easter one thousand
seven hundred and eighty and ending at the same Feast one thousand
seven hundred and eighty one And that the Petitioner was rated and
assessed to pay to the Relief of the said poor one shilling and three
pence per Week Weekly and every Week during the said Year And
that the Petitioner is a Day Labouring Man and rents only part
of a small House in a Court in the said Parish at the Annual Sum
of Ten Guineas and that he conceived himself aggrieved by the said
Rate or Assessment in as much as the same is not an equal and
equitable Rate according to the several Rents and the Property of the
Respective Inhabitants of the said Parish And tha the Petitioner
therefore humbly prayed that the said Rate or Assessment so far as
the same related to him might be quashed or set aside or that such
further and other Relief therein should be granted to him as should
seem Just