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<p n="167">To the Right Honrble <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n167-1">Francis Child</rs>
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Esqr. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ81">Lord<lb></lb>
Mayor </rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo97">City of London</rs>
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And to the rest of his Maities<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ82">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the sd: City in their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions of the Peace assembled</p>
<p n="168">The Humble Petition & Appeale of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n168-1">William<lb></lb>
Martin</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ83">Clerk</rs>
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to the Company of Black smiths<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo98">London</rs>
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in behalf of Himself And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo99">Company</rs>
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<p n="169"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
That the Company of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ84">Blacksmiths</rs>
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are an Antient Company<lb></lb>
of this Honrble City And for many Years last past have been<lb></lb>
year by Rated and Assessed to the Poor for & in respect of their<lb></lb>
Hall or <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo100">Mansion House</rs>
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Scituate on Lambeth Hill in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo101">St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street</rs>
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in London in<lb></lb>
the Sume of forty Shillings (being one Shilling in the pound according<lb></lb>
to what the sd: Hall hath been Charged to the Kings Tax) & no more</p>
<p n="170">That the sd: Parish of St: Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street<lb></lb>
by their Rate or Assessmt: made for the Poor of the sd: Parish<lb></lb>
have rated and Assessed the sd: <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n170-2">Wm: Martin</rs>
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for & in respect of<lb></lb>
the said Company Hall or <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo102">Mansion House</rs>
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( as the Only<lb></lb>
Inhabitant therein) for this Present Year in the Sume of four<lb></lb>
Pounds which is Double to the Usuall rates and Assessmts:<lb></lb>
on them heretofore made And the other Inhabitants in the sd.<lb></lb>
Parish are not rated & Assessed in Proportion thereto</p>
<p n="171">Your Petrs: therefore on behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the sd: Company Conceiveing themselves<lb></lb>
Agrieved by the said Rate or Assesmt.<lb></lb>
Humbly Appeal to this Honrble Court<lb></lb>
to be releived in the Premes</p>
<p n="172">And Yr. Petrs: shall ever pray Etc</p>
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