To the Right Worshipful His Majesty's Justices of the Peace
in and for the County of Middlesex in their General Session assembled

The humble Petition and Appeal of James Westbrook< no role >
Gentleman on Inhabitant of the Parish of Saint Leonard
Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex

Sheweth

That on the sixth day of August last a Distress was made
by John Amos< no role > one of the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of
Saint Leonard Shoreditch on the Goods and Chattels of your Petitioners
for the Sum of One Pound Nineteen Shillings and nine pence alledged
to be rated and assessed on your Petitioner for and towards the necessary
Relief of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch

That part of the said Sum of One Pound nineteen Shillings and
nine pence is rated and assessed on your Petitioner in and by a certain
Rate or Assessment made by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor
and also the Parishioners of the said Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
in the said County of Middlesex at a Meeting held on the fifth day
of July 1799 in the Vestry Room of the said Parish for and towards the
Relief of the Poor of the said Parish And for other the ends and purposes
of a certain Act of Parliament made and passed in the fourteenth year
of the Reign of King George toe third for the Better Relief and Employment of
the Poor within the said Parish and for building a Workhouse and for
purchasing a price of Land for a Burial Ground for the use of the said
Parish

That the said Rate or Assessment was ratified allowed and
confirmed by John Nares< no role > esquire and William Brodie< no role > Esquires two of
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex on
the said fifth day of July 1799

That the said Rate or Assessment is not made according to
the directions of the aforesaid Act but is partial unequal and unfirm
In as much as That the said Church Wardens and Overseers and also
Parishioners of the said Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch have in
such Rate or Assessment omitted the names of Williams Humblebee< no role > ,
Thomas Sharp< no role > , John Amos< no role > , Herbert Garden< no role > (one of the Overseers) James
Saltwell< no role > , William Harrison< no role > , Samuel Leban< no role > Robert Edwards< no role > , Benjamin
Dunnages< no role > , William Ravenhill< no role > , John Mills< no role > , Robert Staffe< no role > John Wilson< no role > ,
Robert Armstrong< no role > , Thomas Seatt< no role > , Josh - Parke< no role > Peter Edwards< no role > , John William< no role >
James Duthait< no role > , Richard Edlin< no role > , Elizabeth Paines< no role > , Edward Barnes< no role > , Richad
Shutter< no role > James Bumpstead< no role > , Robert Edwards< no role > Richard Hedgemans< no role > John
Lawrence< no role > , Henry Barlow< no role > , The widow Hatch, Samuel Hill< no role > and also