To the Rt. Honourable Gerard Conyers< no role > Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London and to the Rest of
is Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the same City of their generall Quarter sessions assembled

The humble petition of the severall Persons whose names are hereunto sett
being parishioners of the Parish of St. Botolphs Bishopsgate in the Ward of
Bishopsgate in the said City.

Sheweth

That George Franckling< no role > & William Herrett< no role > John Preston< no role > John Knighton< no role > Henry Cartwright< no role > & Thomas Hughes< no role > being or Prtending
to be Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the parish aforesd. for this present Year did in or abt. the Month of May last make as
quarterly Rate or Assessment on Yor. peticoners and the Rest of the Parishioners of the sd. Parish amounting to the Sume of 600 £
& upwards for or towards or under presence of relieving the poor of the sd. Parish or for leaving or raising Money by
Virtue or in pursueance of the Statute made in the forty third year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth relateing to the Reliefe
of the poor & setting them to worke another same Rate or assesmt. was confirmed by Sr. Edward Becher< no role > Knt . Alderman of the
sd. Ward and Yor. petitioner's have all of them paid so much as is due of the sevr all Sum's thereby on them respectively
charged.

That the sd. persons soon afterward's made another such Rate or Assessmt. on yor. peticoner's and the rest of the
parishioners of the sd. Parish for the purpases or under the pretemres aforesd. amounting also in the whose to the sume
of £600 & upwards from wth. some of yor. peticoner's and severall other parishioners of the sd. Parish appeales to the
Quarter Sessions for the said City who of their Adjournment held on the eighteenth day of October now last upon
hearing Councell as well for the sd. pretended Churchwarden's & Overseers as for the sd appealants quashed the same

That the sd. pretended Churchwarden's Overseer's afterwards made another such Rate or Assessment
amounting in the whole to the Sume of £300 & upwards and the same having been duly confirmee yor petitioner's
have all of them paid the several Sum's thereby on them respecively charged Notwithstanding which they the sd.
prtended Churchwarden's & Overseer's have made two other such Rated or assesmt. amounting together to the sum
of £300 & upwards, which as they pretend & give out are continued by yor. Lordship & Sr . John Fryer< no role > and the sd. Sr. Edward
Becher or some person or person's haveing authority to confirm the same.

That the sd. pretended Churchwarden's & Overseers or some of them have demands of yor peticoner's the severall
Sumed in the sd. two last mentioned Rates on them respectively charged and have levyee severall sums by the first of them
charged on severall of yor. petitioner's by Distress & Sale of their Goods & Chattells by Vertue or under Colour of the said
Statue and a Warrant to them the pretended Churchwarden's & Overseer's or some of them granted by the sd. Sr .
Edwd. Edmond< no role > and threaten to partee [..] to Dying the whole is money by the sd. two last mentioned States charged & intended
to be raised by Distress & Sale of the Good & Chassell's of yor Petitioner's and the said other parishioner's by Vertue or unde
Pretence of the sd. Statute & Warrant, but refuse to shew the same Rates & Warrant or any either of them to yor peticoner's
or to inform them by Vertue of what Anthority the same are made, or what Necessity there is for raising so large a Sum of
money as by the said Bates is endeavoured to be raised

Wherefore and for that yo. Peticoner's are apprehensive that the money raised to be raised by the sd.
Rates or some of them is applyed or intended to be applyed for some Sinister or other Uses not warranted by the
sd. Statute, and for diverse offer reasons partialitys & abuses in & concerning the sd. Rates and the distressed upon
one of them as aforesd. had & taken yor peticoners Do hereby humbly appeal from the sd. last two Rates and the
sd. Distresse's to Yor. Lordship & Worships and pray that yor. Worships would quash & made void the same or take
such Order therein as to yor Worships shall be thought convenient according to the form of the sd. Statute.

And your petitioners shall over pray Etc.

13th. Aprill 1723 .
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