To the Right Honourable William Plomer< no role > Esquire
Lord Mayor< no role > of the City of London Sir Thomas Hallifax< no role >
Knight one of the Aldermen of the said City James Adair< no role >
serjeant at Law Recorder of the said City Thomas Wright< no role > Esquire
one other of the Aldermen of the said City and others their
Fellows Justices of our Lord the King assigned to keep
the Peace within the said City.

The Memorial of the Principal and Antients of the Society of Staple
Inn

Whereas by an order made at the General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace for the City of London by adjournment on the fourteenth
day of January last the Sum of Seventeen Pounds was declared to be
assessed and taxed eateably and Proportionably on the several Inhabitants
within Staple Inn towards an Equal Distribution to be had and made
for the relief of the several Defendants in the said order mentioned who
had delivered Executions for their Damages and Costs sustained as in
the said order likewise mentioned

Your Memorialists represent that they have always
Considered a very small part only of the said Inn as standing within the
Limits of the City of London and that notwithstanding the most deligent
enquiry they have made in consequence of the said order they cannot specify
and as certain what part of the said Inn is within the Limits of the City
and what part within the County of Middlesex and therefore are unable
to proportion and assess the said Sum of Seventeen Pounds upon and
amongst the several persons who may be liable to pay the same

For these Reasons therefore they find themselves
not sufficiently informed to authorize them to make and
collect the rate required by the said order and are under
the Necessity of requesting that the particular part of the
said Inn which is deemed to be included in the said
Order may be ascertained and pointed out to your
Memorialists.