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To the Right Honourable Sr.
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William Stewart
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Lord Mayor
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and to the Rest of his
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Majestys
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at their Generall Quarter Sessions Assembled.
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The Humble Petition of
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George Fosesck
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William Spinnage
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Thomas Emerton
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and
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Francis Nichols
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That Sr.
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Edward Becher
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. Alderman of the
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in the said City by a Warrant dated the fifteenth
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day of Aprill 1721 Appointed your Petitioners (together with the Churchwardens of the parish of
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St. Botolph Bishopsgate
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in the
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said City and Ward) Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish for the Year then ensueing and in Pursuance thereof your
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Petitioners and the said Churchwardens on the twenty ninth day of the same Month made and signed a Rate for the Releife
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of the Poor of the said Parish according to the Statute in that case made and provided and the said Sr.
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Edward Becher
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being
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applyed to for his Confirmation thereof did on the ninth day of May following confirm the same with a Restriction for collecting
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the money Quarterly.
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That your Petitioners were willing to have collected the said Rate by quarterly parts at the beginning of each
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respective Quarter which they apprehended was the intention of the said Restriction and would have enabled them to
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have relieved the Poor from time to time as Occasion required But severall Parishioners and particularly the Comon
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Councill Men and pretended select Vestry Men of the said Parish meerly with an Intent to give Your Petitioners
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Trouble and Expence in the Execution of their said office And to oblige them of Necessity to advance their own Money for
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the Reliefe of the Poor gave out that the said Rate was become a quarterly Rate payable on the four quarter Days, And
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under that pretence they and many others by their perswasion refused to pay any part thereof till the determination
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of each Quarter respectively And thereby disabled your Petitioners from raiseing Money sufficient for reliefe of the
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Poor as fast as it was wanted without a warrant for levying it by Distress whereupon your petitioners applyed severall
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times to the said
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Edward Becher
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for such warrant but could not prevail upon him to grant any, Otherwise than for
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each quarter part of the said Rate after the expiration of each quarter respectively
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That your Petitioners being advised by their Council That the said Restriction was void and not warranted by the
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said Art of Parliament whereon the said Rate was founded and that therefore the said Confirmation was absolute and
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Seperate Distresses could not be legally made at seperate Times and for severall parts of each or any persons.
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proportion of the said Rate the whole
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charged on each person being and entire sume and not severable and
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the Necessitys of the Poor of the said Parish requireing imediate Reliefe Your Petitioners in Michas Term 1721 were under
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an absolute Necessity to Move, and by their Councill did move his Matys Court of Kings Bench for a Mandanus to be
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directed to the said Sr.
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Edward Becher
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requireing him to grant your Petitioners a Distress warrant on the said Rate
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And accordingly after severall Motions in Michas and Hillary Terms 1721 the said Court granted a Mandamus for a
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distress warrant for levying the whole Money remaining unpaid of the Money Assessed in the said Rate on each person
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respectively and a Mandamus was accordingly made out and delivered to the said
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Edward Becher
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who
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thereupon granted your petitioners such Distress Warrant as thereby requires.
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That when your Petitioners year as Overseers expired and New Overseers were made and appointed
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Edward Becher
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of the moneys by them paid and received and
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