afterwards adding to his Premises by the purchase of about one Acre and three Quarters of Land they
were in Consequence thereof rated at Thirty three Pounds ten Shillings per Annum which rate he did not attempt
to get reduced (although the beforementioned Cottage had been pulled down and the annual Value of his
premises certained lessened thereby) and at this rate the Premises were regularly continued to be charged during
a Course of Twenty Years.

That in the Year 1780 your Petitioner quitting the said Hamlet left the Premises to the care of a Friend
with directions to let them ready Furnished only, at a rent of Thirty three Pounds Ten Shillings for the whole of the
premises together (independant of the furniture) and also for such other annual Sum as could be obtained for
the use of the furniture Fixtures Uttensils and Exotics with great variety of very good Flower roots.-

That in Consequence of your Petitioner's said direction and after the premises had remained unoccupied
half a year they were Left upon Lease to Daniel Jones< no role > Esquire at Thirty three Pounds per annum for the House
and premises and Thirty seven Pounds per Annum for the use of the Furniture Fixtures Utensils Exotics Etc left on
the Premises.

That the said Daniel Jones< no role > Occupied the Premises Six Years and three Quarters and the Annual
Sum of Thirty seven Pounds paid by him for the use of the furniture and other things left there by your
Petitioner was for unequal to the expences and losses which your Petitioner sustained by the removal of such
Parts of his Furniture as the said Tenant had no Occasion for, which said Expences and losses could not be
made good to your Petitioner for less than Three hundred Pounds.

That the said Tenant quitted the Premises at Michaelmas 1787 and then your Petitioner advertized
them to be lett or Sold, but from the ill Condition in which they they were left, and their Objectionable situation
on the Marsh as aforesaid your Petitioner could neither Procure a Purchasor or Tenant and therefore in March
1788 he returned reside upon the said Premises and has ever since occupied the same himself having done
such repairs thereto only as were absolutly necessary to make them tenantable.

That in a rate made for the Relief of the Poor of the said Hamlet on the fourth of August last
your Petitioner's said Premises were raised from Thirty three Pounds Ten Shillings (at which they had continued
during Twenty Years as aforesaid and which is the full Annual value thereof) to Forty Pounds per Annum
And two Fields which your Petitioner Occupies besides his said Premises were at the same time raised from
Seventeen Pounds to Twenty Pounds per Annum. And several other Persons who were Assessed in the last mentioned
Rate being dissatisfied not only with the Charges made upon them therein but with the Partial and unequal
manner in which others were charged, several plans were suggested for equallizing the Charges on the whole
of the Rateabe property within the said Hamlet according to fair and reasonable Valuations thereof and among
others one was suggested by your Petitioner of appointing at a full Vestry Meeting convened for the purpose a
Committee of the most intelligent Inhabitants to settle a rule for and ascertain such equal valuation in
order that the same might be fixed upon a fair and impartial Basis in future but this being objected to
by some Persons who by influence carry all questions at the Public Meetings as they think proper and
who are and have been themselves favoured by not being charged in the Rates to the amount of their
Rateable property. several of them attended a Meeting of the Magistrates acting for the division holden
on the Ninth of August last upon pretence of taking their advice upon a Plan for a more equal mode of
rating and your Petitioner likewise attended the said Meeting and upon some conversation taking Place
respecting the annual value of his Premises he produced the before mentioned Lease, whereby the were lett
to the said Daniel Jones< no role > at Thirty three Pounds ten Shillings per Annum the Magistrates recommended
to him to acquiesed in a Rental of Forty Pounds and seventeen Pounds per Annum for the Fields to
which he consented and the Parish Officers then Appeared fully satisfied therewith but it appearing by such
Lease that your Petitioner was to have Thirty seven Pounds Per Annum for the use of his Furniture
Fixtures Uttensils Exotics Etc as before mentioned the Persons who made the succeeding Rate were determine