Middlesex Sessions:
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January 1798

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at the time of such Rate or Assessment and previous thereto of a certain Wharf Coke-
House and Warehouse situate at Strand on the Green in the said Parish and of
the Value of Fourteen pounds per Annum is not rated or assessed for the same
Whereas your Petitioners apprehend that the said John Pryor< no role > as such Occupant
ought to have been rated and assessed for the said Wharf Coke-house and Warehouse

That in and by the said Rate or Assessment Edmund Gascoyne< no role > (who was an
Inhabitant of the said Parish at the time of making such Rate or Assessment and
previous thereto) was the Occupier of certain Land situate at Strand on the Green
in the said Parish of the yearly value of Twenty Pounds called Chicks Land and the
said Edmund Gascoyne< no role > ought to have been rated and assessed for the same as such
Occupier Whereas the said Edmund Gascoyne< no role > is not charged for the said Land in
and by the said Rate or Assessment.

That Lewis Chipman< no role > who was at the time of making the said Rate or
assessment and previous thereto an Inhabitant of the said Parish and occupied a
certain Messuage or Tenement called The Sign of the Lamb in the said Parish of
the yearly Value of Sixteen Pounds ought to have been rated and assessed in the
said Rate or Assessment for the same as such Occupier Whereas the said Lewis
Chapman
< no role > is not charged in the said Rate or Assessment for the said Messuage or
Tenement.

That it appears in and by the said Rate or Assessment so made that
P.J. Godolphi who on the 15th. day of December 1797 was an Inhabitant of the
said Parish is rated and assessed for one Quarter of a Year in manner following
"50 - P. J Gondolphi ¼ - 1..11..3"whereas in and by the said Rate or assessment
the same by the Title thereof appears to be a Rate or Assessment made the fifteenth
day of December 1797 and ending in the said Year 1797 being a Rate or Assessment
for Sixteen Days only

That your Petitioners also apprehend that the said Rate or Assessment is partial
unequal unjust and oppressive and therefore Your Petitioners do appeal against the
said Rate or Assessment and pray that the said Rate or Assessment may be quashed
or that Your Petitioners may have such Relief in the Premises as to Your Worships
shall seem meet and that the Benefit of this Appeal may be saved unto your
Petitioners and that the Hearing and Determination thereof may be adjourned until
the next General Session of the Peace to be holden for the said County

Wm. Chetham< no role > Solicitor
for the Appellants}


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