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To the Right Worspll his Maties
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Justices of the Peace
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for the County of
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Sheweth
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The humble Peticon of the Inhabitants of the
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Leonard Shoreditch
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whose names are hereunder Subscribed in
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the behalf of themselves and other Inhabitants of the Same
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Parish aggrieved
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That the Prsent
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of the sd Parish In Combinacon with Some of the
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Antient Inhabitants thereof have unequally rated the Contributions of money for the
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releife of the poore of the parish for the Yeare ensueing without haveing regard
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to the rateing of personall Estates in Goods browne but have proceeded in the
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Taxation according to a pound Rate on Rent referred only by which your Petr.
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are greived for that every person (by the Lawes of this Realive) ought to be
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rated according and in proporcon to his Justice Sab Stained within the sd. parish
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aswell as by the pound Rate
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Wherefore yor. Petr. humbly Pray that the Sd. Ovrseers and others
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prsent all the makeing of the sd. Rate may be warned to attend
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this Court to Shew cause why there Should not be a new Rate
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And Yr. Pr. (as in duty bound) Shall ever Pray Etc
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Thomas Beesley
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John Atkinson
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Richard Ayres
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Sarah Corslers
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her
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Anne Bannister
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