gratis he was relieved upon the said Appeal and the Rate was ordered to be
mitigated to the Sum of £4 per Annum which he and his Predecessors Vicars of
the said Parish had usually paid

That notwithstanding the said James Wallen< no role > was so relieved and hath
continued to bury and doth still bury he Poor of the said Parish gratis, A Rate
was made under Colour of the said Act of Parliament between the 1st. and 8th.
Days of October last and was allowed by two of his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the said County of Middlesex on the 2d day of the November following
wherein your Petitioners are as Trustees and Assigners of the said James Wallen< no role >
rated and assessed for the vicarial Tythes in their Possession on Occupation at the Sum
£520. by the Year or Thereabouts Whereas part of the Tythes so rated as aforesaid
are in truth rectorial and the whole Tythes in the Possession of the said Trustees
do not produce more that £340 per Annum or thereabouts

That your Petitioners having been summoned to attend at the Vestry Room
of the said Parish of Kensington on Thursday the 13th. Instant to shew Cause
against the said last mentioned Rate or Assessment your Petitioner Robert Lewis< no role >
attended and was heard against the same but the sitting Magistrates refused to
relieve your Petitioners against the said Rate Whenupon your said Petitioner
gave Notice that your Petitioners intended to appeal against the said Rate or Assessment

That the proprietors of Brompton Chapel within the said Parish are
by the said last mentioned Rate or Assessment rated and assessed at the Sum of
£80 a Year for the said Chapel and no more whereas your petitioners apprehend that for the said
Chapel they ought to have been charged and assessed at the Sum of £400
Year at the least

That by the said Act of Parliament the Churchwardens and Overseers
of the Poor of the said Parish on the major part of them together with the
parishioners [..] of the said parish paying any Rate or Assessment to be made by Virtue of