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<p n="385">To the Right Honble <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n385-1">Francis Child</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ286">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ287">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the City of<lb></lb>
London And the rest of his Majties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ288">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the said City<lb></lb>
in their Generall Quarter Sessions of the peace Assembled</p>
<p n="386">The Humble Peticon of the severall persons Inhabitants of <lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo456">St. Botoploh. without Bishopgate</rs>
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London London whose<lb></lb>
Names are hereunto Subscribed, or behalfe .on behalf of themselves and<lb></lb>
others of the Inhabitants of the said Parish</p>
<p n="387"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That severall Sumes of Money have been Demanded of yor. Peticoners<lb></lb>
for or towards the Releife of the Poor of the said Parish as due upon a Rate<lb></lb>
made by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n387-1">William Godfrey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n387-2">Henry Downer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n387-3">John Shakespear</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n387-6">Thomas<lb></lb>
Whiteworth</rs>
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in Conjunction with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n387-4">Nathaniel Spurling</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n387-5">Jacob Keeves</rs>
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or<lb></lb>
some of them, who call themselves and pretend to be Church Wardens and<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ289">Overseers of the poor</rs>
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of the said Parish, That your Peticoners are by the said<lb></lb>
Rate Aggreived and unlawfully Taxed and rated, for that the said Pretended<lb></lb>
Church Wardens & Overseers of the Poor are not duly and lawfully appointed<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ290">Overseers of the poor</rs>
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of the said Parish, And if any such Appointment<lb></lb>
there be, the same was not made within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo457">City of London</rs>
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as the Law<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ291">Requires</rs>
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, And the said pretended Rate is not duly Confirmed and if the same<lb></lb>
is at all Confirmed it was not done within the said City, And the Amount of<lb></lb>
the said Rate is of itself more than Sufficient to defray. the necessary Charge<lb></lb>
of maintaining the poor of the said parish and all thers incident & necessary<lb></lb>
Charges and Expences for the Space of 6 Months and upwards, And the said<lb></lb>
pretended Church Wardens and Overseers of the poor of the said Parish have<lb></lb>
neglected to Rate and Asses severall Inhabitants of the said Parish who<lb></lb>
ought by Law to be Rated and Assesed.</p>
<p n="388">Yor. Peticoners most Humbly Pray the said Rate may be Quashed<lb></lb>
And that they may have such farther releife in this premisses as to<lb></lb>
this Honble Court shall seem Just.</p>
<p n="389">And Yor. Peticoners Shall ever Pray Etc.</p>
<p n="390"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n390-1">John Small</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n390-2">Mich Actor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n390-3">John Wallington</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n390-4">William Snelling</rs>
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</p>
<p n="391"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n391-1">James Colebrooke</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n391-2">Dudley Foley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n391-3">John Lock</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n391-4">Rogere Mainwaring</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n391-5">John Tuller</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n391-6">Joseph Wildiges</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n391-8">Rd: Chiswell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n391-7">Henry<obscured></obscured>
arr Hyrett</rs>
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