To the Worshipfull his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex in their General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled.

The Petition and Appeal of William Miles< no role > of the
Hamlet of Pinner in the said County Esquire .

Sheweth

That by virtue of a Rate or Assessment made for the relief of the Poor of the said Hamlet and
for other Purposes mentioned in the several Acts of Parliament relating to the Poor on or about the ninth day
of March last past and allowed by two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County and afterwards
Published in the Church of the said Hamlet your Petitioner is charged in and by such Rate or Assessment with
a large and excessive Sum of Money for the purposes aforesaid and much more than according to the real Value
of his Rateable Property within the said Hamlet he should be charged at and also much more in
Proportion to such Value than several other Inhabitants and Occupiers of Rateable property within the
said Hamlet and charged at.-

That the pretended Rule of charging Persons to the said Rate is at a Rack Rent or to the
full amount of the Real annual Value of the rateable property which they respectively Occupy or Possess in the
said Hamlet but which said rule the Persons who made the said Rate have departed from and disregarded
in several instances and several Circumstances of inequality and Partiality in Charging Persons will appear
upon inspecting the said Rate and enquiring into and ascertaining the Particulars of the real value of such
property Particularly

That the Reverend Mr Williams Minister of the said Hamlet is charged or Assessed therein at no more
than after the Rate of Forty five Pounds per Annum although his dwelling House and the Appurtenances thereunto
belonging are much more valuable with respect to size Convenience and Situation than those of your Petitioner
(which are rated as aftermentioned at Seventy Pounds per Annum) And in which said Charge or Assessment
of Forty Five Pounds Per Annum is included a large Orchard and fourteen Acres of the best Land within the
said Hamlet

That your Petitioner in the Year 1764 Purchased a House Cottage and Land in the said Hamlet
the whole comprizing about Six Acres including the Rate of the House Cottage Garden and Yards which consisted of
about two Acres of the said six Acres, and the said Cottage was worth about Five Pounds or six Pounds per
Annum to be lett.

That the premises so purchased by your Petitioner being situated on a small Common called the Marsh
and generally Flooded upon any Considerable fall of Rain the situation is objectionable in the opinion of many
Renters of Houses and on that account the premises are considerably depreciated in point of value either
to be lot or sold

That in the Year 1768 your Petitioner let the whole of the said Premises as the same were purchased
by him to a Tenant for a Year at the annual rent of Thirty Pounds after having stood empty for several years
and after such Tenant quitted them they remaned unoccupied a year, whereupon your Petitioner (being unable
to find a purchaser for them or to lot them to any advantage) returned in the Year 1770 to reside on them
himself, and being soon afterwards rated at Fifty Pounds a Year he attended a Petty Sessions of his Majestys
Justices of the Peace holden at Edgeware and upon proof being made before them of the rent at which he
had let the premises as aforesaid and other Circumstances respecting their Value being taken into
Consideration the Overseers of the Poor Consented to rate him at Thirty Pounds per Annum But your Petitioner