to take advantage of that Circumstance and on the Eighth of December last your Petitioner was
charged therein at the Rate of Seventy Pounds per Annum for his said Premises and Seventeen
Pounds per Annum for the said two Fields thereby charging him (as your Petitioner conceives) at the Rate
of Thirty seven Pounds per Annum for the value of the furniture and other things before mentioned which
he humbly apprehend are not rateable property.

That in and by the beforementioned Rate made on the Ninth day of March last (being
the same which your Petitioner now Appeals against) your Petitioner is also charged according to the said
Annual value of Seventy Pounds per Annum for and in respect of his said first mentioned Premises (over
and above the Charge of Seventeen Pounds per Annum for the said two Fields) which said Charge at
the Rate of Seventy Pounds per Annum your Petitioner conceives to be exorbitant unreasonable and
excessive and that the principal part thereof is made in contemplation of a kind of property (such as
Furniture Etc as beforementioned) which is not chargeable by Law to the relief of the Poor in Places where
there is no Custom for Charging such property and as there has never been such a Custom in the said
Hamlet nor any Person therein ever charged in respect to the like Kind of Property your Petitioner
conceives himself agrieved by the last mentioned Rate or Assessment.

Your Petitioner therefore finding himself aggrieved by the said
Partial and unequal Rate made on the Ninth day of March last as
beforementioned and by the excessive and unreasonable Charge made upon
him therein and by the Conduct of the said Churchwardens and Overseers
of the Poor on making the said Rate Doth hereby Appeal to your Worships
against the same And requests that you will be Pleased to appoint a day
for the hearing and determining the said Appeal And that you will
thereupon Quash and set aside the said lastmentioned rate or Assessment
made for the relief of the Poor as aforesaid And Order and direct that the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Hamlet may make another Rate
with equality and indifference according or in proportion to the real and true
Value of all and every Part of the property rateable to the relief of the Poor of
the said Hamlet or that you will be pleased to alter and amend the said last=
=mentioned Rate and reduce the rent Charge upon your Petitioner to Thirty
Three Pounds ten Shillings as it formerly stood or otherwise grant your
Petitioner such Relief in the Premises as to you shall seem meet.

And Your Petitioner will pray Etc
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