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<p n="342">To the Worshipfull the Chairman & others his<lb></lb>
Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50326_occ123">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50326_geo225">Middx</rs>
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At their Genl. Quarter Session<obscured></obscured>
of the<lb></lb>
Peace for the Said County Assembld.</p>
<p n="343">The Humble Petition & Appeal of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50326_n343-1">George Jackson</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50326_geo226">St. Leonard<lb></lb>
Shoreditch</rs>
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in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50326_occ124">Appothecary</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="344"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petr. Rents a House of Ten<lb></lb>
pounds a Year in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50326_geo227">Shoreditch</rs>
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in the Said Parish &<lb></lb>
has for Some time past been Tax'd & Rated 4½d P Week<lb></lb>
to the poor of the Said Parish.</p>
<p n="345">That tho your Petr. Still Continues under<lb></lb>
the Same Rent yet he is now Rated Six pence P<lb></lb>
Week without knowing any just reason for the<lb></lb>
Same, Several of his Neighbours paying the like<lb></lb>
Rent being Rated at no More than 2d. or 3d a Week</p>
<p n="346">That as your Petr. humbly Conceives<lb></lb>
all Overseers of the poor in their Respective Parishes<lb></lb>
are to Make the Rates which are usually approv'd of<lb></lb>
by the Inhabitants of the Same and That any<lb></lb>
person aggreivd thereby may Appeal to the General<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the Peace.</p>
<p n="347">Your Petr. therefore Believing<lb></lb>
himself to be Soaggriev'd as aforesaid Does<lb></lb>
now humbly Petition & Appeal to this Honble.<lb></lb>
Court for Such Relief in the Premisses as to<lb></lb>
your Worships Shall Seem Meet.</p>
<p n="348">19th. October 1737.</p>
<p n="349">And he Will Pray Etc.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50326_n349-1">Geo: Jackson</rs>
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