To the Worshipful His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
in General Quarter Session of the Peace at the Session House on Clerkenwell Green in the
said County assembled

The humble Petition and Appeal of Stephen Chambers< no role > of
the Hamlet of Ratcliff in the County of Middlesex Cooper

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on the 23d. Day of June 1797
rated or assessed for a Dwelling House Warehouses and Premises situate
in Maiden head Alley in the said Hamlet of Ratcliff in the said County
of Middlesex by the Commissioners acting in and under a certain Act
of Parliament Intituled "an Act for paving and regulating Rosemary
"Lane from the Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate to Cable Street also the said
"Cable Street the Foot Path in Back Lane Part of the Precinct of Well Close
"the Street leading from Nightingale Lane to Ratcliff Cross Butcher
"Row and Brook Street And the several Streets Lanes and Passages
"opening into the same and for removing all Obstructions and Annoyances
"there from and preventing the like for the future"

That your Petitioner humbly conceives that he is
not liable to be rated or assessed for the said Premises the same not
being situate within any of the Places particularly specified in
the said Act and which have been paved by virtue of or in pursuance
thereof but on the contrary the said Alley wherein the said Dwelling
House Warehouses and Premises are situate has not been new
paved under any Provision of the said Act but remains as it were
previous to passing the said Act which exempts your Petitioner from
any Rate or Assessment whatsoever

Your Petitioner therefore humbly appeals to this
Court against the Assessment of the said Commissioners
and prays that your Worships will be pleased to
appoint a Day to hear and determine the said Appeal

And Your Petitioner will ever pray Etc