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