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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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and to the Rest of his Maties
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at their Genl Quarter Sessions of ye peace Assembled
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The humble Petition and Appeal of the Church
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Wardens & Overseers at the poor of the parish of St
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George Botolph Lane London
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Sheweth
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That
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for many years past the Sum of Six pound
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has yearly been ordered to be paid at the General Quarter Sessions
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for London
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to the parish of Allhallows on the wall
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London for the relief of their poor of ye sd parish
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That Your petitioners conceive themselves aggrieved
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by the sd Order their poor being much increased
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and their Rates much higher then at the time
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the sd Order Several of their
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Inhabitants being gone to decay & the Charge of
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the sd parish much increased and therefore most
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humbly Appeal to your Honr & Worps therefrom
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And therefore humbly pray this Court will Order
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that the consideration hereof may be Adjourned to the
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next general or Quarter Sessions and all parties concerned may
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then Attend & abide the determinacon of the Court
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And they Shall ever pray Etc
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