Middx ss:

Ad General Quarterial Session pacis Dui
Regis tent P Com Middx apnd Hicks hall in st.
John street in Com prd. [..] P adjorn die JovisMartinsscilt
decimo quintg [..] die Octobris anno regui Dui Georgy
scdi nunc Regis Magne Britannie [..] quarto
coram Willo Cowper< no role > Johe Milner< no role > Robto Tothill< no role >
Johe Webster< no role > Aris & al socys sins Justic dci Dui
Regis ad pacem in Com prd. conservand necnon
ad divers felow tusgr & al malefacta in dodem
Com p petrat andi dud & terminand assign Etc

Whereas Nathaniel Fowler< no role > Henry Crouch< no role > Joseph Bicknell< no role > James Hoper< no role > Henry Dobson< no role > Ellis price< no role >
Thomas Cox< no role > John Purnell< no role > and divers other persons
Inhabitants of the parish of St. Mary Matfellon als
whitechappel in this County on behalfe of
themselves & other Inhabitants of the said parish
exhibited their humble peticon & appeale unto the
Court of the last General Quarter Sessions of the peace
begun & holden for this County on Monday the twenty
ninth day of June last setting forth that the Petrs. are
rated & assessed towards the releif of the poor of the said
parish of St. Mary white Chappel for this present yeare
one thousand seven hundred & thirty the several
sumes of money under the said peticon & appeale at
each particular name respectively set downe by the
Churchwardens & Overseers of the poor of the sd parish
& some other Inhabitants, and the same is called a
discretionary Rate, And that the Petrs thought themselves
aggreived by such a discretionary Rate, and hoped to
prove to the said Court the same to be rather a
partial & unequall Rate For in fact their discretionary
is to ease such who are their Freinds & Favourites,
And, that several of the Petrs rent houses of six seven &
eight pounds P ann, and carry on small busyness
to support their Familys , yet are [..] rated one
shilling & six pence and some two shillings P Month
others who pay sixteen or eighteen pounds P ann
are rated two shillings & six pence and three Shillings
P Month, which is as much as several others are rated
who pay double the rent and deale for double the money