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October 1755

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To Henry Collett< no role > Gent Edward Anderson< no role > Gent High Constable of Kensington Division
Within the Hundred of Ossulston in the County of Middlesex

WHEREAS the Court of General [..] Quarter Sessions of the Peace help for the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall
in St John Street in the County aforesaid by Adjournment on Thursday the [..]
twenty third Day of October [..] in the Twenty [..] ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, King of Great-Britain, Etc. did
(by Virtue of the Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of his Reign; Intitled, An Act for the more easy assessing, col
lecting, and levying of County Rates) order that a General Rate should be made and assessed upon every Town, Parish, or Place
in the said County for raising the Sum of Twelve Hundred pounds to Answer the Ends and Purposes
mentioned in the said Act, which Sum the said Court thought neccessary for the same Purposes. And to the Intent that the said
Sum might be raised for those Purposes, the said Court by Virtue of the said Act did Assess upon every Town, Parish, and
Place here undermentioned, within your Division or District, and within the Jurisdiction and Authority of the same Court,
as their Quota or Proportion towards the raising the said Sum of Twelve Hundred pounds the respective Sums of
Money following (that is to say)

£ s d

The parish of Kensington 11..12..-

The parish of Chelsea 7..16..3

The parish of Fulham 9..2..6

The Hamlet of Hamersmith 7..16..-

The parish of Chiswick 5..14..3

The parish of Ealing 3..15..-

Old Brentford 4..17..6

The parish of Acton 6..-..3

The parish of Wilsden 6..7..3

63..1..-




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