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<p n="481">To the Right Honble Sr <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n481-1">Wm Stewart</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15033_occ174">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15033_geo211">City of London</rs>
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and to the Rest of his Maties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15033_occ175">Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace</rs>
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at their Genl Quarter Sessions of ye peace Assembled</p>
<p n="482">The humble Petition and Appeal of the Church<lb></lb>
Wardens & Overseers at the poor of the parish of St<lb></lb>
George Botolph Lane London</p>
<p n="483"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That<del>by Vict.</del>
for many years past the Sum of Six pound<lb></lb>
has yearly been ordered to be paid at the General Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
for London<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
to the parish of Allhallows on the wall<lb></lb>
London for the relief of their poor of ye sd parish</p>
<p n="484">That Your petitioners conceive themselves aggrieved<lb></lb>
by the sd Order their poor being much increased<lb></lb>
and their Rates much higher then at the time<lb></lb>
of making<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the sd Order Several of their<lb></lb>
Inhabitants being gone to decay & the Charge of<lb></lb>
the sd parish much increased and therefore most<lb></lb>
humbly Appeal to your Honr & Worps therefrom</p>
<p n="485">And therefore humbly pray this Court will Order<lb></lb>
that the consideration hereof may be Adjourned to the<lb></lb>
next general or Quarter Sessions and all parties concerned may<lb></lb>
then Attend & abide the determinacon of the Court<lb></lb>
touching the sd Order</p>
<p n="486">And they Shall ever pray Etc</p>
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