Middx ss:

Ad General Quartial Session pacis Dui Regis tent p Com Middx
apnd Hicks Hall in St. John Street in Com prd p adjorn die [..] Jovis
scilt decimo quinto [..] die Octobris Anno regui Dui Georgy Scdi nunc
Regis Magne Britannie Etc 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 nemonad
divers felow tusgr & al male facta in dodm Com p petrat
audiend & timinand 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
Whitechapple in this County on behalfe of themselves and other
Inhabitants of the said parish exhibited their humble peticon &
appeale unto the Court of the last General Quarter Sessions of the
peace begun and holden for this County on Monday the twenty
ninth day of June last setting forth that the peticoners are rated
and assessed towards the releif of the poor of the said parish of St.
Mary White Chappel for this present year one thousand Seven
hundred & thirty the several sumes of money under the said
peticon and appeale at each particular name respectively set
downe by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said
parish and some other Inhabitants, and the same is called a
discretionary Rate, And that the peticoners 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 discretion is to ease such who are their Freinds & Favourites
And that several of the peticoners rent houses of six seven and eight
pounds p Ann, and carry on small busyness to support their
Familys, yet are rated one silling & six pence and same two
shillings P Month others who pay Sixteen or eighteen pound
P Ann are rated two shillings and Six pence and three shillings
P Month, which is as much as several others are rated wh [..]
pay double the rent and deale for double the money in way of
trade, and particularly one of the present Churchwardens whose
house is thirty five pounds P Ann was rated last year but two
Shillings and four pence P month and tis presumed is rated no
more this Yeare, and that several other Inhabitants who rent
houses of upwards of ten pounds P Ann are not rated at all
though their rent makes each of them an Inhabitant, And that
several persons in the said parish who have places in the several
publick offices as the Custome houses Navy Office Victualling Officer [..]