and ninety eight the said William Hill< no role > the Collector demanded of Messrs.
Thos. Sermon< no role > and Walpole Eyre< no role > your Petitioners Agents the Sum of
Twenty eight Pounds for half a Years Poor and Highway Rates
assessed in manner following that is to say rate of One shilling
and eleven pence in the pound for the maintenance of the Poor of
the said Parish and other expences included in the said rate
and a rate of one penny in the pound for repairing the Highways
and Causeways within the sd. Parish upon the yearly rent of
Five hundred and sixty pounds.

That your Petitioners said Agents finding that the said rates
were increased from seventeen pounds five shillings and ten pence
to Fifty six Pounds declined paying the said Sum of Twenty eight
pounds and appealed to the Vestrymen for the said Parish against
the said rates and Assessments on the tenth day of November
last And upon such Appeal demanded and inspection of the rate
Books which was refused but the sd. Vestrymen Ordered the
rates for the whose year for your Petitioners said Farm to be
reduced to Forty four Pounds two shillings upon the yearly Rent
of Four hundred and forty one Pounds.

That your Petitioners said Agent afterwards obtained Copies of
the said rates for the Fields in the said Parish for the years One
thousand seven hundred ad ninety seven and One thousand seven
hundred and ninety eight from which it appeared that your Petitioners
Farm above had been raised for the year One thousand seven
hundred and ninety eight and that although all the other Occupiers
of the said Fields had less money to pay for their respective rates in
the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight than they
had to pay in the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety seven
Your Petitioner had a larger sum of money to pay by more than
double what his said Farm had been rated at in the year One
thousand seven hundred and ninety seven.