To the Right Worshipful His Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex ,
in their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
assembled,

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Adam
Broomhead< no role > , Benjamin Fuller< no role > Charles
Brunsden< no role > and John Danvers< no role > Junr

Sheweth

That by Virtue of a certain Tax Rate or Assessment
according to a Pound Rate after the Rate of One Shilling and
their Pence in the Pound made on the Twenty fifth Day of May
now last past by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of Hornsey in the County of Middlesex upon the Inhabitants
Owners and Occupiers of Houses Lands Tenements Tithes
impropriate and Impropriation of Fishes in the said Parish
towards the necessary Relief of the Poor of the said Parish and
for other Purposes mentioned in the Statute made in the
Forty-third Year of the late Queen Elizabeth, Intitled," An
"Act for the Relief of the Poor," Your Petitioners were in and
by such Rate or Assessment charged and assessed in several
Sums of Money for the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish
which they humbly conceive are greater than they ought to
be for the following Reasons and Objections

First

For that the said Rate or Assessment hath not been made
signed allowed and published in such Manner and Form as
the Laws made and now in Force concerning the making
Signing allowing and publishing of Rates for the Relief of the
Poor in the said Parish require

Secondly

For that in and by the said Rate or Assessment your
Petitioners are charged and assessed for houses Lands Tenements
and Premises held and occupied in the said Parish of Hornsey
in a much larger seem than Your Petitioners ought to be so
charged and assessed for the same and above the Proportion