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Humbly Sheweth
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Inhabitants the aforesaid part of the said Parish for the reliefe of the Poor, according
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to a pound Rate your Petitioners are advised such method of rating is unequal and
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his adjudged
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illegal in London
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That by the same rate some hundreds of poor People inhabiting
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in that part of the said Parish and who have no Legal Settlement there and who
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an likely to become chargeable to that part of the said Parish, are assessed, which
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may tend to the great Damage of that part of the said Parish in General and to
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your Petitioners in perticuler by giving a Settlement to such a great number of poor
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People in a Parish too much over burtherned with poor already.
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That the said Rate is also unequal in charging some of your
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Petitioners both as to their Rents and Estates more in proportion than other the
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Inhabitants of that part of the said Parish, and others of your Petitioners for
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much more than the Rents and Estates they possess and the same Rate as your
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Petitioners humbly conceive and are advised is nor made according to Law
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That the said part of the said parish in general as well
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as your Petitioners in particular being agrieved by the said Rate, and ye Petitioners
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doubting not but to prove the said several Allegations
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Dop humbly pray this honoble Court that the same
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Rate may be Quashed or your Petitioners otherwise relieved
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touching the said Rate) in such manner as your Lordship
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and Worships shall think fitt
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And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc
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