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January 1774

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and fraudulent upon Your Petitioners and the rest of the
Inhabitants of the said Parish as they must all eventually
and proportionably contribute to make up the deficiency
in the said Rate occasioned by these very unjust and
unwarrantable Proceedings But also Your said Petitioners
John Salter< no role > , Thomas King< no role > and James Trimmer< no role > are
particularly aggrieved by the said Rate for this present
Year by reason that Your Petitioner John Salter< no role > is in the
said last mentioned Rate Assessed at the Rent of Fifteen
pounds P Annum whereas Your said Petitioner holds
his Premisses for which he is so Assessed as Tenant by
Lease at the yearly Rent of Ten pounds and ten shillings only
Your Petitioner Thomas King< no role > is also in the said Rate Assessed
at the Rent of Forty seven pounds P Annum whereas Your
said Petitioner holds his Premisses for which he is so
Assessed as Tenant by Lease at the Yearly Rent of
Twenty eight pounds only And Your Petitioner James
Trimmer
< no role > is also in the said Rate assessed at the Rent
of Forty pounds P Annum whereas Your said Petitioner
holds his Premisses for which he is so Assessed as Tenant
by Lease at the Yearly Rent of Twenty pounds only
And which said several and respective Rents so reserved
and made payable by Your Petitioners respectively are
the full and just Values of the said several Premisses so
respectively Occupied by Your Petitioners as aforesaid.

That by means of these unjust and unwarrantable
practices Your Petitioners apprehend themselves greatly
Aggrieved And that the said Rate for the present Year
One thousand seven hundred and seventy three is Unequal
unequitable and illegal and as such ought to be set aside
and Quashed or atleast altered and a mended in respect to
the matters herein before complained of And that Your Petitioners
as to so much of this their Appeal as relates to the said
Holland and Hawes ought to be paid their Costs of this
Application by such of the said Officers as was or were
guilty of or Privy or consenting to the altering the said Rate for
the Year 1772 and filling up the said blanks in the said book of
the Poors Rate for the present year 1773 in manner aforesaid

And therefore Your Petitioners Appeal against the same
Rate for the present year 1773. and humbly Pray such Relief in
the Premisses as to Your Worships shall seem meet.




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