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To the Right Honrble
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Francis Child
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Mayor
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of the
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And to the rest of his Maities
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Justices of the Peace
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for the sd: City in their General
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Quarter Sessions of the Peace assembled
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The Humble Petition & Appeale of
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William
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to the Company of Black smiths
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in behalf of Himself And the said
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Company
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Sheweth
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That the Company of
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Blacksmiths
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are an Antient Company
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of this Honrble City And for many Years last past have been
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year by Rated and Assessed to the Poor for & in respect of their
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Hall or
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Mansion House
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Scituate on Lambeth Hill in the
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Parish of
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St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street
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in London in
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the Sume of forty Shillings (being one Shilling in the pound according
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to what the sd: Hall hath been Charged to the Kings Tax) & no more
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That the sd: Parish of St: Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street
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by their Rate or Assessmt: made for the Poor of the sd: Parish
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have rated and Assessed the sd:
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Wm: Martin
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for & in respect of
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the said Company Hall or
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Mansion House
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( as the Only
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Inhabitant therein) for this Present Year in the Sume of four
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Pounds which is Double to the Usuall rates and Assessmts:
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on them heretofore made And the other Inhabitants in the sd.
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Parish are not rated & Assessed in Proportion thereto
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Your Petrs: therefore on behalf of himself
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and the sd: Company Conceiveing themselves
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Agrieved by the said Rate or Assesmt.
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Humbly Appeal to this Honrble Court
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to be releived in the Premes
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And Yr. Petrs: shall ever pray Etc
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