Middlesex

To the Worshipfull Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex

The Humble Petition of Mary Fry< no role > .

Sheweth

That your Petitioner is Seized in Free of a House Tenement and
Premises in Queen Street in the hamlet of Hammersmith in the Parish
of Fulham in the County of Middlesex which were formerly Let to the
Countess of Powis and who quitted the said Premises at Michaelmas One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Four

That from that Time to the Month of September one Thousand Seven Hundred
and Eighty Five the said house and Premisses were Totally Sheet up and while
they were so Shut up the Premises being Robbed and Stripped of most Things
Valuable your Petitioner employed as Person to take Card of the House
And to get it Sett and the Premises hath ever since been Unoccupied-
save Only the Person Authorized to Let it may have Slept there for the
Purpose of saving the Premisess from such Thieves

That your Petitioner receives no rent But pays for keeping the
Place in Repairs.

That for the Year One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Five
your Petitioner hath been Assessed to the Over Rates at one Shilling and Six
Pence in the Pound and for the year One Thousand seven hundred and Eighty
Six at Twelve Pence in the Pound whereby your Petitioner is much Agrieved

That your Petitioner Conceives herself not only agrieved by being Charged
to the Poor rates for an Unoccupied House but also that your Petitioner
is much Over Rated the whole of the said Hamlet being unequally-
Assessed.

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Prays that