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<p n="1841">to take advantage of that Circumstance and on the Eighth of December last your Petitioner was<lb></lb>
charged therein at the Rate of Seventy Pounds per Annum for his said Premises and Seventeen<lb></lb>
Pounds per Annum for the said two Fields thereby charging him (as your Petitioner conceives) at the Rate<lb></lb>
of Thirty seven Pounds per Annum for the value of the furniture and other things before mentioned which<lb></lb>
he humbly apprehend are not rateable property.</p>
<p n="1842">That in and by the beforementioned Rate made on the Ninth day of March last (being<lb></lb>
the same which your Petitioner now Appeals against) your Petitioner is also charged according to the said<lb></lb>
Annual value of Seventy Pounds per Annum for and in respect of his said first mentioned Premises (over<lb></lb>
and above the Charge of Seventeen Pounds per Annum for the said two Fields) which said Charge at <lb></lb>
the Rate of Seventy Pounds per Annum your Petitioner conceives to be exorbitant unreasonable and<lb></lb>
excessive and that the principal part thereof is made in contemplation of a kind of property (such as<lb></lb>
Furniture Etc as beforementioned) which is not chargeable by Law to the relief of the Poor in Places where<lb></lb>
there is no Custom for Charging such property and as there has never been such a Custom in the said <lb></lb>
Hamlet nor any Person therein ever charged in respect to the like Kind of Property your Petitioner<lb></lb>
conceives himself agrieved by the last mentioned Rate or Assessment.</p>
<p n="1843">Your Petitioner therefore finding himself aggrieved by the said<lb></lb>
Partial and unequal Rate made on the Ninth day of March last as<lb></lb>
beforementioned and by the excessive and unreasonable Charge made upon<lb></lb>
him therein and by the Conduct of the said Churchwardens and Overseers<lb></lb>
of the Poor on making the said Rate Doth hereby Appeal to your Worships<lb></lb>
against the same And requests that you will be Pleased to appoint a day<lb></lb>
for the hearing and determining the said Appeal And that you will<lb></lb>
thereupon Quash and set aside the said lastmentioned rate or Assessment<lb></lb>
made for the relief of the Poor as aforesaid And Order and direct that the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Hamlet may make another Rate<lb></lb>
with equality and indifference according or in proportion to the real and true<lb></lb>
Value of all and every Part of the property rateable to the relief of the Poor of<lb></lb>
the said Hamlet or that you will be pleased to alter and amend the said last=<lb></lb>
=mentioned Rate and reduce the rent Charge upon your Petitioner to Thirty<lb></lb>
Three Pounds ten Shillings as it formerly stood or otherwise grant your<lb></lb>
Petitioner such Relief in the Premises as to you shall seem meet.</p>
<p n="1844">And Your Petitioner will pray Etc<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50862_n1844-1">William Miles</rs>
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