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To the Right Honble
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Francis Child
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Lord Mayor
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of the City of
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London And the rest of his Majties
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for the said City
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in their Generall Quarter Sessions of the peace Assembled
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The Humble Peticon of the severall persons Inhabitants of
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the Parish of
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London London whose
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Names are hereunto Subscribed, or behalfe .on behalf of themselves and
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others of the Inhabitants of the said Parish
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Sheweth
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That severall Sumes of Money have been Demanded of yor. Peticoners
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for or towards the Releife of the Poor of the said Parish as due upon a Rate
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made by
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William Godfrey
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Henry Downer
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John Shakespear
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Thomas
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Whiteworth
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in Conjunction with
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Nathaniel Spurling
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Jacob Keeves
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or
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some of them, who call themselves and pretend to be Church Wardens and
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of the said Parish, That your Peticoners are by the said
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Rate Aggreived and unlawfully Taxed and rated, for that the said Pretended
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Church Wardens & Overseers of the Poor are not duly and lawfully appointed
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Overseers of the poor
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of the said Parish, And if any such Appointment
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there be, the same was not made within the
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City of London
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as the Law
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Requires
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, And the said pretended Rate is not duly Confirmed and if the same
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is at all Confirmed it was not done within the said City, And the Amount of
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the said Rate is of itself more than Sufficient to defray. the necessary Charge
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of maintaining the poor of the said parish and all thers incident & necessary
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Charges and Expences for the Space of 6 Months and upwards, And the said
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pretended Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor of the said Parish have
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neglected to Rate and Asses severall Inhabitants of the said Parish who
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ought by Law to be Rated and Assesed.
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Yor. Peticoners most Humbly Pray the said Rate may be Quashed
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And that they may have such farther releife in this premisses as to
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this Honble Court shall seem Just.
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And Yor. Peticoners Shall ever Pray Etc.
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John Small
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John Wallington
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Dudley Foley
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arr Hyrett
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