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<p n="590">To the Worshipful his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50948_occ88">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo396">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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in General Quarter Session of the Peace at the Session House on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo397">Clerkenwell<lb></lb>
Green</rs>
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in the said County assembled</p>
<p n="591">The humble Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50948_n591-1">Joseph Bird</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo398">Ratcliff</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo399">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50948_occ89">Esquire</rs>
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<p n="592"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner was on the 23d Day of June<lb></lb>
1797 not only rated or assessed for his Dwelling House situate at Cock<lb></lb>
Hill in the said Hamlet of Ratcliff but also for his Sail Loft Warehouse <lb></lb>
and wharf situate and lying behind his said Dwelling House by the<lb></lb>
Commissioners acting in and under a certain Act of Parliament <lb></lb>
passed in the 11th. Year of his present Majesty Intituted "an Act<lb></lb>
"for paving and regulating <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo400">Rosemary Lane</rs>
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from the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo401">Saint<lb></lb>
"Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo402">Cable Street</rs>
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also the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo403">Cable Street</rs>
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the foot Path in<lb></lb>
"<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo404">Back Lane</rs>
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Part of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo405">Precinct of well close</rs>
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the Street leading from<lb></lb>
"<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo406">Nightingale Lane</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo407">Ratcliff Cross</rs>
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Butcher Row and Brook Street And<lb></lb>
"the several Streets Lanes and Passages opening into the same and for<lb></lb>
"removing all Obstructions and Annoyances there from and preventing <lb></lb>
"the like for the future"</p>
<p n="593">That your Petitioner humbly conceives that he is<lb></lb>
not liable to be rated or assessed for the said Sail Lost Warehouse and<lb></lb>
Wharf situate behind his said Dwelling House the same not being<lb></lb>
situate within any of the Places particularly specified in the said<lb></lb>
Act and which have been paved by Virtue of or in pursuance<lb></lb>
thereof which exempts your Petitioner from any Rate or Assessment <lb></lb>
whatsoever for the said last mentioned Premises</p>
<p n="594">Your Petitioner therefore humbly appeals to<lb></lb>
this Court against the Assessment of the said<lb></lb>
Commissioners and prays that your worships will<lb></lb>
be pleased to appoint a Day to hear and determine <lb></lb>
the said Appeal</p>
<p n="595">And your Petitioner will ever pray Etc</p>
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