To the Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex at their general
Session of the Peace holdenfor the said
County assembled.

The humble Petition and appeal of John Crawley< no role >
John Ashfield< no role > William proctor< no role > John Nolckman< no role > John
Hanson< no role > Samuel Oliver< no role > John Pordey< no role > Marmaduke
Mortimer< no role > John Williams< no role > Alexander Tough< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. James Bonner< no role >
and William Smith< no role > being severally Inhabitants within the
Parish of Saint Mary Stratford Bow a in the said County of
Middlesex and rated towards the Relief of the Poor there

Sheweth

That on or about the twenty ninth Day of January last a
Rate or assessment was made and allowed for the Relief of the Poor
within the said Parish.

That your Petitioners conceived themselves to be aggrieved
by the said Rate or Assessment in as much as your Petitioners
apprehend that the said Rate or Assessment is partial unequal
unfair and unjust and that for the following (among other Reasons)

First, for that there is not any necessary Occasion for the Money
raised or attempted to be raised by the said Rate or Assessment
there being a Considerable Sum of money (being the Balance of
former Rates or Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor of the
said Parish new remaining in the Hands of Robert Jones< no role > one of
the Present Overseers of the poor of the said Parish and which
he has appropriated to his own Use under Colour of a Grant
Pretended Grant from the select Vestry of the said Parish of on
Shilling in the Pound for collecting the said Rates on Assessment
amounting in the whole to the Sum of one hundred and forty
pound, which he has not applied for the Use of the said Parish

Secondly For that there appears several very considerable Sum
of Money remaining due from different Inhabitant of the said
Parish uncollected of Preceeding rates or Assessments and who are
of sufficient Ability to pay the same if means were used to en [..]
the Payment thereof.

Thirdly forth at even if there was no Money in the [..]