To the Rt: Worshipfull his [..] ties Justices of the Peace For the County of Middlesex
In Quarter Session Assembled

The Humble Petition and Aldgate of Ralph Kingstone< no role > , Thomas Godfrey< no role > , Church Warden [..]
Andrew Crosse< no role > , Bennet Hoskins< no role > Aaron Gibbs< no role > , Henry Billingay< no role > , John Oakley< no role > , John Osye< no role > [..]
Henry Hankin< no role > & Jno. Hughs Chief and Antient Inhabitants of the Parish of St James Clerkenwell [..]
in the County of Middx on Bebay of themselves and Many others of the Said Parish whose Names [..]
hereunto Subscrib [..]

Sheweth

That William Collier< no role > , Joseph Birch< no role > , Thomas Gibson< no role > , and John Pyther< no role > Present Overseers of the [..]
of the said Parish have lately mett privately and clandestinely (as your Petitioners are informed) at the house [..]
of Mr. Kingstone One of the present Churchwardens (and not in the Publick Vestry of the said Parish [..]
and without the consent of; or calling to their Assistance, the chiefest and most Antient Inhabitants of the [..]
said parish (as has been constantly pract usd there) have made a years Rate to be Collected monthly, of and upon
the Inhabitants of the said parish for Reliefe of the Poor there; for this present Year 1715 According to a pound [..]
after the Rate of two Shillings in the pound, upon the Rents of House, Lands, and Tenements in the said parish [..]
has since been allowed and confirmed by two of his Majties Justices of the Peace for this County, which method of [..]
Rate is an Unusual way and contrary to the Method and Custome Used and Practised in the Said parish time and [..]
mind, and very unequal and Oppressive to, and upon the Inhabitants there in the Said parish, in Regard the Inhabitant [..]
of the said parish and Occupiers of Lands and Tenements therein, are not rated according to their Abilitys, but [..]
and disproportionably, and the Rich are therein favoured, and the poor Oppressed and many other persons pretended [..]
be Saxed and Rated in this Rate at two Shillings in the pound, According to the Rent of their Houses, are Over-rated [..]
Proportion to such their Rents: and that many persons inhabiting in houses of forth Shillings three pound [..]