To the Worshipful His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex in General Quarter Session of the Peace for the said County
assembled

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Joseph Cooper< no role > , Thomas
Crook< no role > and George Cloak< no role > Inhabitants of the Parish of Chiswick in
the County of Middlesex

Sheweth

That by a Rate or Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor of the
said Parish of Chiswick and for other Purposes on the Fifteenth day of December 1797
and allowed by John Hatchett< no role > and William Carr< no role > Esquires two of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace in and for the said County (one whereof being of the Quorum) the twenty
ninth day of the same December Intitled as appears in the Copy of such Rate or
Assessment lately delivered to your Petitioners "A Rate or Assessment for the necessary
"Relief of the Poor and for other Purposes in the several Acts of Parliament mention'd
"relating to the Poor for the Parish of Chiswick made and assess'd the 15th. day of
"Decemr. 1797 being the second Rate or Assessment at one Shilling and three
"pence in the Pound for the present Year"; Your Petitioners and many other Persons
who on the said fifteenth day of December were Inhabitants and Occupiers of
Houses Lands and Tenements in the said Parish are in and by the said Rate
or Assessment charged and assessed in several sums of Money for such Relief
as therein specified

That your Petitioners being aggrieved by such Rate or Assessment crave
leave to appeal therefrom on the following Grounds vizt.

That by the Custom of the said Parish for several Years last Past
there have been two Rates or Assessments made in one Year for the Relief of
the Poor thereof the first Rate or Assessment commencing at Lady Day and
ending at Michaelmas Day following and the other Rate or Assessment commencing
at Michaelmas Day and ending the Lady Day following.

That the next preceding Rate to the said Rate or Assessment against
which your Petitioners do appeal for the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish was
made on the thirty first day of August 1797 and was in the Title thereof alledged to
be made for two quarters commencing at Lady Day and ending on Michaelmas Day
1797 at one Shilling and three Pence in the Pound to be collected quarterly and which
said preceding Rate was charged therein to amount to the Sum of Seven hundred and
forty one Pounds three Shillings and nine Pence And that the said Rate or Assessment
now appealed against amounts to the Sum of Seven hundred and thirty four pounds as Your
Petitioners [..] the same.

That by the said Rate or Assessment now appealed against your Petitioners
and the several other Inhabitants therein named are charged at the several sums of
One Shilling and three Pence in the Pound for only sixteen Days the said Rate.