To Edmund Adlington< no role > Gent High Constable of the Tower Division
Within the Hundred of Ossulston in the County of Middlesex

WHEREAS the Court of General [..] Quarter Sessions of the Peace held 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 necessary 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 St Mary White Chappel 30..5..6

The parish of Christ Church 20..16..6

The parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch 17..19..3

The Liberty of Norton Folgate 4..9..3

The parish of St. John at Hackney 17..16..9

The Hamlet of Bethnall Green 10..4..3

The Hamlet of Mile End Old Town 7..13..9

The Hamlet of Mile End new Town 2..16..-

The parish of St Mary at Stratford Bow 3..8..4½

The parish of St. Leonard Bromley 4..6..7½

The Hamlet of Poplar & Blackwell 8..8..3

The parish of St Ann 7..9..6

The Hamlet of Ratcliffe 12..19..7½

The parish of St. Paul Shadwell 16..12..6

The parish of St. George 19..8..1½

The parish of St. John Wapping 17..3..3

The Liberty of East Smithfield 14..4..9

The Precinct of St. Catherine 8..2..10½

224..5..1½

You the said High Constable are by Virtue of the said Act of Parliament, and of the aforesaid Order of Session required on