To The Worshipfull John Hawkins< no role > Esquires and to
the rest of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex in their General Session Assembled

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Joseph Beale< no role >
William Pell< no role > Aaron Clinker< no role > John Coleman< no role > Honoria Collins< no role >
Woolrath Hattzmeyer< no role > , Cout Dirs, Castern Dirs, and John Batger< no role > ,
Inhabitants of the Parish of Saint George Middlesex paying to the
Relief of the Poore within the said Parish

Sheweth

That on the nineteenth day of August last a rate, or Assessment was made for the
Relief of the Poor of the said Parish by John Horsford< no role > and an Lancelot
Bowler< no role > Churchwardens and William Ray< no role > William Gunniss< no role > and John
Hopkins< no role > Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish and Allowed by Rober
Pell< no role > and Christopher Scott< no role > Esquires two of his Majesties Justices of the
Peace of the said County which Rate was made for three Months Commenceg
at Lady day now last past; That your Petitioners conceive themselves
aggrieved by the said Rate or Assessment because they and the other Inhabitants of the
said Parish are thereby Rated and Assessed by an Annual Rate or Assessment
by the Pound whereas the Custom and Usage of the said Parish hath
Constantly for a great Number of Years last past been to make a Monthly
Rate a Assessment which being Discretionary was much better Calculated
to Answer immediate Occasions without bringing a Perpetual burthen on
the Inhabitants.

That the said Rate or Assessment is in many Instances partial
and unequal and in Particular that your said Petitioners are respectively
Charged much Higher in Proportion to the Annual Values of the Premises respectively
Occupied by them than other persons within the said Parish and therefore
and for other Defects in the said Rate your Petitioners Appeal therefrom

Your Petitioners therefore humbly prays that your
Worships would be pleased to Order the benefit of the said Appeal
to be saved to your Petitioners; and that your Worships would be
pleased to appoint a day in the next general Quarter Session of the
Peace to hear and determine the said Appeal; and at the same time
that the Churchwardens and Overseers of the said Parish may produce
the Books of the Old Rates for the Relief of the Poor of the said
Parish as also the Books of the present Rates. And that your
Worships would be pleased to make such order therein as to your
Worships shall seem meet

And your Petitioners shall ever Pray

Cha: Martyn< no role > Sollr . for the Appellts.
St. Martin Street Leicester fields .