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To the Right Worpll: His Maties Justices of the Peace for
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the County of
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assembled in Quarter Sessions
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The Humble Peticon & Appeal of
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John Lupton
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of
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the parish of
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Hackney
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in the said County
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Clerk
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Sheweth
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That near thirty Years since Yor: Peticonr. was Constituted & appointed
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Master
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of a Free. School
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in the said parish of
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Hackney
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where he still continues
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That during all the said time your Peticonr. never was rated to
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the Releif of the Poor neither have any of your Peticonrs.
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Predecessors been rated to the Releif of the Poor wthin.
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the memory of any person now living as yor. Peticonr. hath
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been informed & verily beleives (untill the Year last past)
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That Yor: Peticonr. now stands rated wch. hath been
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demanded of him by the Overseers of the Poor as due
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at Lady Day last past & threaten to distrain in
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case he dont pay what he is rated
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Yor. Peticonr: thinks himself aggrieved wth. the
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said Rate and appeals to this Worpll. Bench
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& humbly prays (the prmisses considered) That
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in regard it is a Free School for educating
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& teaching the Children of the same parish
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that he may be discharged from paying to the said
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Rate
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And Yor. Peticonr. (as in Duty bound) shall ever pray Etc:
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