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<p n="208">To the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ80">Rt. Honourable</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n208-1">Gerard Conyers</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ81">Knt</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ82">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the City of London and to the Rest of<lb></lb>
is Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ83">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of the same City of their generall Quarter sessions assembled</p>
<p n="209">The humble petition of the severall Persons whose names are hereunto sett<lb></lb>
being parishioners of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15034_geo95">Parish of St. Botolphs Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15034_geo96">Ward of<lb></lb>
Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the said City.</p>
<p n="210"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n210-1">George Franckling</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n210-2">William Herrett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n210-3">John Preston</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n210-6">John Knighton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n210-7">Henry Cartwright</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n210-4">Thomas Hughes</rs>
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being or Prtending<lb></lb>
to be <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ84">Churchwardens</rs>
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& <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ85">Overseers of the Poor</rs>
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of the parish aforesd. for this present Year did in or abt. the Month of May last make as<lb></lb>
quarterly Rate or Assessment on Yor. peticoners and the Rest of the Parishioners of the sd. Parish amounting to the Sume of 600 £<lb></lb>
& upwards for or towards or under presence of relieving the poor of the sd. Parish or for leaving or raising Money by<lb></lb>
Virtue or in pursueance of the Statute made in the forty third year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth relateing to the Reliefe<lb></lb>
of the poor & setting them to worke another same Rate or assesmt. was confirmed by Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n210-5">Edward Becher</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ86">Knt</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ87">Alderman</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
charged.</p>
<p n="211">That the sd. persons soon afterward's made another such Rate or Assessmt. on yor. peticoner's and the rest of the<lb></lb>
parishioners of the sd. Parish for the purpases or under the pretemres aforesd. amounting also in the whose to the sume<lb></lb>
of £600 & upwards from wth. some of yor. peticoner's and severall other parishioners of the sd. Parish appeales to the<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions for the said City who of their Adjournment held on the eighteenth day of October now last upon<lb></lb>
hearing Councell as well for the sd. pretended Churchwarden's & Overseers as for the sd appealants quashed the same</p>
<p n="212">That the sd. pretended Churchwarden's Overseer's afterwards made another such Rate or Assessment<lb></lb>
amounting in the whole to the Sume of £300 & upwards and the same having been duly confirmee yor petitioner's<lb></lb>
have all of them paid the several Sum's thereby on them respecively charged Notwithstanding which they the sd.<lb></lb>
prtended Churchwarden's & Overseer's have made two other such Rated or assesmt. amounting together to the sum<lb></lb>
of £300 & upwards, which as they pretend & give out are continued by yor. Lordship & <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ88">Sr</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n212-1">John Fryer</rs>
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and the sd. Sr. Edward<lb></lb>
Becher or some person or person's haveing authority to confirm the same.</p>
<p n="213">That the sd. pretended Churchwarden's & Overseers or some of them have demands of yor peticoner's the severall<lb></lb>
Sumed in the sd. two last mentioned Rates on them respectively charged and have levyee severall sums by the first of them<lb></lb>
charged on severall of yor. petitioner's by Distress & Sale of their Goods & Chattells by Vertue or under Colour of the said<lb></lb>
Statue and a Warrant to them the pretended Churchwarden's & Overseer's or some of them granted by the sd. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15034_occ89">Sr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n213-1">Edwd. Edmond</rs>
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and threaten to partee<obscured></obscured>
to Dying the whole is money by the sd. two last mentioned States charged & intended<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
Pretence of the sd. Statute & Warrant, but refuse to shew the same Rates & Warrant or any either of them to yor peticoner's<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
money as by the said Bates is endeavoured to be raised</p>
<p n="214">Wherefore and for that yo. Peticoner's are apprehensive that the money raised to be raised by the sd.<lb></lb>
Rates or some of them is applyed or intended to be applyed for some Sinister or other Uses not warranted by the<lb></lb>
sd. Statute, and for diverse offer reasons partialitys & abuses in & concerning the sd. Rates and the distressed upon<lb></lb>
one of them as aforesd. had & taken yor peticoners Do hereby humbly appeal from the sd. last two Rates and the<lb></lb>
sd. Distresse's to Yor. Lordship & Worships and pray that yor. Worships would quash & made void the same or take<lb></lb>
such Order therein as to yor Worships shall be thought convenient according to the form of the sd. Statute.</p>
<p n="215">And your petitioners shall over pray Etc.</p>
<p n="216"> <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15034_date43">13th. Aprill 1723</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n216-1">Terard Hatley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n216-2">Edwd. Baker</rs>
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</p>
<p n="217"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n217-1">Peregrine Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n217-2">Edwd Hawker</rs>
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</p>
<p n="218"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n218-1">John Hipling</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Ca<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="219"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n219-1">Robt. Welham</rs>
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<p n="220"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n220-1">Thos. Bowes</rs>
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<p n="221"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15034_n221-1">Thos. Richard</rs>
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's<lb></lb>
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