To the Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of the peace
for the County of Middlesex at the Sessions house in
the said County at their General Quarter Sessions
Assembled

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Alice Blackburn< no role >
of the City Road in the parish of Saint Luke in the
County of Middlesex

Sheweth

That Sir James Esdaile< no role > Knight and Thomas Cogan< no role > Esquire
two of his Majesty's Justices of the peace acting in and for the County of
Middlesex by a Warrant under their Hands and Seals respectively bearing date
the Twenty First day of April in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven
hundred and Ninety directed to William Standon< no role > and John Lucas< no role > two of
the Collectors appointed to collect the Rate or Assessment, made by Virtue of
an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Twenty Seventh year of the
reign of his late Majesty King George the Second Intituled "An Act for the
better onlightening and cleansing the open places Squares Streets Lanes Alleys
passages and Courts within the parish of Saint Luke in the County of
Middlesex and regulating the Nightly Watch and Bedels and for repairing
the Highways within the said parish," in that part of the said parish called
Old Street Liberty Did thereby require the said William Standen< no role > and John
Lucas< no role > the Collectors aforesaid to distrain the Goods and Chattels of your
Petitioner which should be found in the said parish or elsewhere for the
Sum of Two pounds Three Shillings and Nine pence for Three Quarters
of a years Rate or Assessment due from her at Christmas day then last past
on a certain messuage or Tenement with the appartenances situate standing
Lying and being in a certain place called or known by the name of the
City Road in the parish and County aforesaid for the purposes in the said
Act above mentioned

That such Distress was accordingly made in pursuance thereof
by which your petitioner apprehends and is advised that she is
greatly Aggrieved

For that your Petitioner's said Messuage or Tenement and
Appurtenances for which your petitioner is Rated and Assessed are
detached so great a distance from the Lighted Cleaned Watched and
repaired parts of the said parish, and long unlighted uncleansed