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October 1730

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and by reason of having a place and the noe other dependance
shall be rated as much as persons of much greater rents persons
of good trade & great dealings, And that for the reasons aforesaid
the peticoners thought themselves aggreived by the said Rate,
and appealed to th [..] said Court against the same, And prayed that
the said Rate might be quashed, And further prayed that as in
several other parishes (vizt.) St. Giles without Cripplegate , St. Giles
in the fields , and St. James Clerkenwell a pound Rate hath
prevailed, and the same experienced to be just and equitable,
and that in July Quarter Sessions One thousand Seven hundred
and twenty nine this Court confirmed and held good a pound Rate
made in the parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate , which had
been made by discretion before time out of mind, And therefore
hoped this Rate of St. Mary White Chappel shall be a pound Rate,
and the peticoners further prayed that the said appeale might
be saved to them as of this said last Quarter Sessions, And that the same might
be adjourned over to the Adjorment day of the then next General
Sessions (if any such adjorment should be appointed) or otherwise
to the first day of the then next General Quarter Sessions, And that then &
there the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the
said parish might be Ordered to Attend the Court, with the
said several Rates, and also to produce at the same time the several
Scavengers Rates,or duplicates of the same, for this present
Year which will make appeare the several Rents and what
disproportion there is in their discretionary Rate of persons of
equal rent and the same Ability, And that they might [..] hear and
abide the Judgement and determinacon of the Court touching
the said appeale, the matter of which appeale was on the said twenty
ninth day of June last appointed to be heard and determined by the
Court of the said last Quarter Sessions on Wednesday the twenty Sixth
day of August then next at ten of the clock in the forenoon, And by an
Order made by the same Court on that day the hearing & determining
the matter of the said appeale was adjourned untill this present
General Quarter Sessions of the peace holden for this County by
adjournment on Tuesday the thirteenth day of October instant at ten
of the clock in the forenoon, And It was by the said Order further Ordere [..]
that the Churchwardens & Overseers of the poor of the said parish
should produce the poors Rates of the said parish for this present year
and for the year last past before the Court at the same time, And than
they or the scavengers of the said parish should alsoe produce the
scavengers Rates of the said Parish and books which doe contain the
rent of each Inhabitant from which the Scavengers Rate was made
for those Years before the Court at the time aforesaid, And It was




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