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& to the Right
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Worpfull the rest of his Majestyes Justices of the
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Peace for the same City & Liberties thereof in
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their Generall Quarter Sessions Assembled
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The Humble Peticon & Appeale
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of
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Sheweth
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That you Petitioner being an Inhabitant & occupyer the
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The,
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Parish of St Mary
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, are as a Dwelling
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for himself land Family rents an how in Scotch Yard in
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the same Parish for which he pays Thirty two Pounds P
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Ann Rent and no more.
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That the Church wardens & over seers of ye Poor
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of the said Parish, or some of them, have for severall years
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last past, and particularly for the last Year 1729. rated
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your Petitioner in the Yearly Sume of £6.1s.4d. as for
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for and towards the Releif of the Poor of the said Parish
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which (as your Petitioner, apprehends) in more in
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Proportion than divers others, of the Inhabitants of
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the said Parish do Pay for houses of the James Rent
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with your Petitioners
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Wherefore and for other reasons yor Petr
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Conceives himself aqrieved by the said Sess or Tax made
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for the said Year 1729 . as illegall and unequall
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Doth appeale to yours Lordp an Worps there from
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And humbly prays that you will be
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pleased to hear him in the premises & to take such
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order for Your Potitioners Releif therein as to your
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Lordship & Worps upon hearing this Appeale shall be
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thought convenient and agreeable to Equity.
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And yor Pets. shall pray Etc
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