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That on the seventeenth day of November One thousand seven
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hundred and ninety eight Your the Petitioners said Agents further Appealed
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to the said Vestrymen against the said reduced rates when they Ordered
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the rates for your Petitioners said Farm to be further reduced to twenty
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Pounds eight shillings upon the yearly Rent of Two hundred and
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four Pounds.
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That on the eighth day of January One thousand seven hundred
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and ninety nine the said
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William Hill
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the
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demanded of your
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Petitioners said Agents the Sum of Twenty Pounds and eight
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shillings for a Years Poor and Highway rates up to Christin
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One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight upon the said yearly
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rent of Two hundred and four pounds which they declined paying
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and on the twelfth day of January One thousand seven hundred
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and ninety nine again appealed to the said Vestrymen against the
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said rates upon ground of Inequality but the said Vestrymen
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refused to reduce the said Rates any further.
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That of the sixteenth day of January One thousand seven
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hundred and ninety nine the said Sum of Twenty pounds eight
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shillings was paid to the said
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the Collector pursuant
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to the Act of Parliament in that case made and provided
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That your the Petitioner conceiving himself aggrieved by the said
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rates and the determination of the said Vestrymen has given notice
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of his intention to appeal to your Worships against the same
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and together with two Sureties has entered into a Recognizance
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touching such Appeal as required by the said Act of Parliament
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That your the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved by the said
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Rates or assessments and the Determination of the said Vestrymen
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in as much as he is by the said Rates and Assessments rated and
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assessed for his said Farm in a much greater Sum of money
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than be ought to be and in as much as the said several rates
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and assessments are and each of them is in many instant
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partial and unequal and particularly in that your the Petitioner
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