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<p n="487">To the Right Honourable Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n487-1">William Stewart</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15033_occ177">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15033_geo212">City of London</rs>
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and to the Rest of his<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15033_occ178">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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at their Generall Quarter Sessions Assembled.</p>
<p n="488">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n488-1">George Fosesck</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n488-2">William Spinnage</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n488-3">Thomas Emerton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n488-4">Francis Nichols</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="489"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n489-1">Edward Becher</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15033_occ179">Knt</rs>
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. Alderman of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15033_geo213">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the said City by a Warrant dated the fifteenth<lb></lb>
day of Aprill 1721 Appointed your Petitioners (together with the Churchwardens of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15033_geo214">St. Botolph Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said City and Ward) Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish for the Year then ensueing and in Pursuance thereof your<lb></lb>
Petitioners and the said Churchwardens on the twenty ninth day of the same Month made and signed a Rate for the Releife<lb></lb>
of the Poor of the said Parish according to the Statute in that case made and provided and the said Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n489-2">Edward Becher</rs>
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being<lb></lb>
applyed to for his Confirmation thereof did on the ninth day of May following confirm the same with a Restriction for collecting<lb></lb>
the money Quarterly.</p>
<p n="490">That your Petitioners were willing to have collected the said Rate by quarterly parts at the beginning of each<lb></lb>
respective Quarter which they apprehended was the intention of the said Restriction and would have enabled them to<lb></lb>
have relieved the Poor from time to time as Occasion required But severall Parishioners and particularly the Comon<lb></lb>
Councill Men and pretended select Vestry Men of the said Parish meerly with an Intent to give Your Petitioners<lb></lb>
Trouble and Expence in the Execution of their said office And to oblige them of Necessity to advance their own Money for<lb></lb>
the Reliefe of the Poor gave out that the said Rate was become a quarterly Rate payable on the four quarter Days, And<lb></lb>
under that pretence they and many others by their perswasion refused to pay any part thereof till the determination<lb></lb>
of each Quarter respectively And thereby disabled your Petitioners from raiseing Money sufficient for reliefe of the<lb></lb>
Poor as fast as it was wanted without a warrant for levying it by Distress whereupon your petitioners applyed severall<lb></lb>
times to the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15033_occ180">Sr</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n490-1">Edward Becher</rs>
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for such warrant but could not prevail upon him to grant any, Otherwise than for<lb></lb>
each quarter part of the said Rate after the expiration of each quarter respectively</p>
<p n="491">That your Petitioners being advised by their Council That the said Restriction was void and not warranted by the<lb></lb>
said Art of Parliament whereon the said Rate was founded and that therefore the said Confirmation was absolute and<lb></lb>
Seperate Distresses could not be legally made at seperate Times and for severall parts of each or any persons.<lb></lb>
proportion of the said Rate the whole<obscured></obscured>
charged on each person being and entire sume and not severable and<lb></lb>
the Necessitys of the Poor of the said Parish requireing imediate Reliefe Your Petitioners in Michas Term 1721 were under<lb></lb>
an absolute Necessity to Move, and by their Councill did move his Matys Court of Kings Bench for a Mandanus to be<lb></lb>
directed to the said Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n491-1">Edward Becher</rs>
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requireing him to grant your Petitioners a Distress warrant on the said Rate<lb></lb>
And accordingly after severall Motions in Michas and Hillary Terms 1721 the said Court granted a Mandamus for a<lb></lb>
distress warrant for levying the whole Money remaining unpaid of the Money Assessed in the said Rate on each person<lb></lb>
respectively and a Mandamus was accordingly made out and delivered to the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15033_occ181">Sr</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n491-2">Edward Becher</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
thereupon granted your petitioners such Distress Warrant as thereby requires.</p>
<p n="492">That when your Petitioners year as Overseers expired and New Overseers were made and appointed<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15033_n492-1">Edward Becher</rs>
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of the moneys by them paid and received and</p>
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