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<p n="582">To the Worshipful His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50948_occ87">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo381">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in General Quarter Session of the Peace at the Session House on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo382">Clerkenwell Green</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said County assembled</p>
<p n="583">The humble Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50948_n583-1">Stephen Chambers</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo383">Ratcliff</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo384">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Cooper</p>
<p n="584"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner was on the 23d. Day of June 1797<lb></lb>
rated or assessed for a Dwelling House Warehouses and Premises situate<lb></lb>
in Maiden head Alley in the said Hamlet of Ratcliff in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo385">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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by the Commissioners acting in and under a certain Act<lb></lb>
of Parliament Intituled "an Act for paving and regulating Rosemary<lb></lb>
"Lane from the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo386">Saint Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo387">Cable Street</rs>
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also the said<lb></lb>
"<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo388">Cable Street</rs>
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the Foot Path in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo389">Back Lane</rs>
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Part of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo390">Precinct of Well Close</rs>
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<lb></lb>
"the Street leading from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo391">Nightingale Lane</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo392">Ratcliff Cross</rs>
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Butcher<lb></lb>
"Row and Brook Street And the several Streets Lanes and Passages<lb></lb>
"opening into the same and for removing all Obstructions and Annoyances<lb></lb>
"there from and preventing the like for the future"</p>
<p n="585">That your Petitioner humbly conceives that he is<lb></lb>
not liable to be rated or assessed for the said Premises the same not<lb></lb>
being situate within any of the Places particularly specified in<lb></lb>
the said Act and which have been paved by virtue of or in pursuance<lb></lb>
thereof but on the contrary the said Alley wherein the said Dwelling<lb></lb>
House Warehouses and Premises are situate has not been new<lb></lb>
paved under any Provision of the said Act but remains as it were<lb></lb>
previous to passing the said Act which exempts your Petitioner from<lb></lb>
any Rate or Assessment whatsoever</p>
<p n="586">Your Petitioner therefore humbly appeals to this<lb></lb>
Court against the Assessment of the said Commissioners<lb></lb>
and prays that your Worships will be pleased to<lb></lb>
appoint a Day to hear and determine the said Appeal</p>
<p n="587">And Your Petitioner will ever pray Etc</p>
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