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To the Worshipfull the Chairman & others his
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Majesties
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At their Genl. Quarter Session
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Peace for the Said County Assembld.
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The Humble Petition & Appeal of
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George Jackson
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of the Parish of
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in the said County
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Sheweth
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That your Petr. Rents a House of Ten
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pounds a Year in
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in the Said Parish &
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has for Some time past been Tax'd & Rated 4½d P Week
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to the poor of the Said Parish.
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That tho your Petr. Still Continues under
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the Same Rent yet he is now Rated Six pence P
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Week without knowing any just reason for the
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Rent being Rated at no More than 2d. or 3d a Week
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That as your Petr. humbly Conceives
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all Overseers of the poor in their Respective Parishes
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are to Make the Rates which are usually approv'd of
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by the Inhabitants of the Same and That any
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person aggreivd thereby may Appeal to the General
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Quarter Session of the Peace.
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Your Petr. therefore Believing
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himself to be Soaggriev'd as aforesaid Does
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now humbly Petition & Appeal to this Honble.
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Court for Such Relief in the Premisses as to
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your Worships Shall Seem Meet.
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19th. October 1737.
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And he Will Pray Etc.
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Geo: Jackson
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