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To the Right Honourable
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Humphry Parsons
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of the
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and to the rest of his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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of the Same City in their General
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Quarter Sessions Assembled
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The Humble petition and Appeale of
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George Monke
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Ward Smith
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Thomas Strode
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on behalf of themselves and the Rest of the proprietors
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of the Waterworks at
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Sheweth
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That the said proprietors as Lessees of this Honourable City for the Remainder of a Term of Four hundred years
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are possessed of a peice of Ground by
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in the parish of
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Containeing Sixteen feet
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Square upon part of which is Erected a Wooden Building for the Elevation of the Water which is Distributed for
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the Service of the Inhabitants of the said City and two or three Rooms for the Comittee of the said proprietors
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to Meet in to transact and Manage the Affairs of the said Waterworks And the said proprietor are also
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Possess of Some Engines under three of the Arches of
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with a Gallery (which is built over part
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of the River) of Communication to all their Works and Engines and the said proprietors are likewise possessed
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of another peice of Ground in the said parish Containeing twenty six feet in Width and thirty five feet in Depth
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for the Remainder of a Term of twenty one years for the Conveniency of laying their pipes, for which
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two peices of Ground and building the said proprietors pay but the Sume of three pounds ten Shillings
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per Ana Rent
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That the said parish of
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by their Assessment made for the poor of the said parish
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have Assessed the said proprietors of the said Waterworks in respect of the said Ground and
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and
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last the sume of four shillings per Weeks being ten
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pounds eight shillings per Ann towards the Releife of the poor of the said parish
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That your Peticoners and the said proprietors Do humbly Conceive that they are Aggreived by the said
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Assessment made by the said parish in Regard your Peticoners and the said proprietors for the year
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one thousand Seven hundred and twenty eight were assessed but the sume of Four pounds and for the year
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to the poor of the said parish And for that your peticoners and the said proprietors are advised that they are
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assessable only for the said Wooden building and Ground which lyes in the said parish and not for the said
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Gallery and Engines which Do not lye in the said Parish but are appropriated to the publicks use
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Wherefore your peticoners and the said proprietors Humbly appeale from the
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