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<p n="510">To <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15010_occ201">the Right Honourable</rs>
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Sr <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15010_n510-1">Francis Child</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15010_occ203">Lord Major</rs>
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of ye Honourable<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15010_geo300">City of London</rs>
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To the Right Worshipfull the Recorder. And the Rest of his Majestyes<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace Assembled at the Generall Quarter Sessions Held for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15010_geo301">Citty of<lb></lb>
London</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15010_geo302">Guild Hall</rs>
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of the same</p>
<p n="511">The Humble Peticon of the Church wardens Overseers for the Poor<lb></lb>
And others the Antient Inhabitants of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15010_geo303">Parish of St Botolph Bishopsgate</rs>
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<p n="512">Humbly Sheweth London<lb></lb>
That before the dreadfull fire of London yor Petitioners<lb></lb>
had allowed by order of the Bench of Justices from the City Parishes the Sume of Sixty<lb></lb>
Pounds P Ann; but after that dreadfull fire, which consumed most of the Habitations it was<lb></lb>
taken of. And multitude of the Inhabitants which were burnt out, came to Inhabitt in their<lb></lb>
Parish. And when the City was Rebuilt the houses were built soe large that their no Houses for<lb></lb>
the Poor; The rich went all back into the citty. And left the Poor behind them who many<lb></lb>
of them hath become A great charge and the Poverty and decay of trade and the long & sedious<lb></lb>
Warr, And the Generall decay in the Weaveing Trade, of which Trade three parts of our<lb></lb>
Poor consist upon whereby the Parish is reduced to such great Straites that they know not wch:<lb></lb>
way to releive their Poor, notwithstanding they make such great Assesments for the Poor, that<lb></lb>
noe Parish in the City of Freedom part comes were it. And besides every year wee are forced<lb></lb>
to make Additionall rates for the Poor. And this year besides the Assesment for ye Yearly Poor<lb></lb>
their is already Assessed A year and an halfes additionall rates for the Poor, which makes<lb></lb>
the Gentlemen of the Parish threaten to leave the same, but wee are constrained to make<lb></lb>
such Assesments. And all will not doe for wee are Indebted betweene Nine Hundred And<lb></lb>
A Thousand Pounds which wee pay Intrest for. May it Please your Honour And yor.<lb></lb>
Worshpps from the time of the Dreadfull fire of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15010_geo304">London</rs>
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untill the Year 1688 wee had not One<lb></lb>
Penny Allowed from the Citty: And in the sd Year 1688 wee had allowed Thirty Pounds and at<lb></lb>
severall times by degrees it was raised to Sixty Pounds for which wee Return thanks to this<lb></lb>
Honourable Bench. Wee are Informed that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15010_geo305">St Giles Cripplegate</rs>
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for thee Freedom pt: doe receive<lb></lb>
from the City Ninety five Pounds P Ann. And wee doe pay to the Poor a great deale more then<lb></lb>
they, and shave A Greater number of Poor by Farr then they As may appear by our Returne</p>
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