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To the right honble.
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Humphry Parsons
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Lord Mayor
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of the
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City of London
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and the worshipfull the Aldermen the
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Justices of the peace
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for the said City
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at the General Quarter Sessions assembled.
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The humble Petition of
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Richard Lechmere
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John Lateward
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&
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Thos. Dinely
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of London
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Wharfingers on behalf of themselves and the rest of the wharfingers farmers of Brewer's
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key
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Chester's Key
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Gally Key
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Woollkey and Custome house key in the parish of
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Alhallows
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Barking London
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Sheweth
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That yor. Petrs. and Partners and their Predecessors have for upward of forty years last past
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occupy'd
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and held the several wharfs and warehouses comonly called
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Brewers key Chester
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Key
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Gally Key
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Wool key and Custome house key and the Warehouses Comonly called
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Globe yard
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in the said
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Parish of
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Alhallows Barking
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and were for the former part of those years rated at about a Tenth part
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in proportion to the whole of the parish rate & after for sevll. years were raised to a Ninth part & for the
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year 1726. were raised to an Eighth part or thereabouts
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That part of the premisses for wch your Petrs. were so rated were taken from yor. Petrs. & added
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to the Custome house for wch the parish have rated the Comissioners Seperately from yor. Petrs. and from
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that time to the year 1729. your Petrs. were rated a ninth part of the whole rate
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That altho' many Improovements have been made in the said parish by divers new
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and Additional buildings whereby your Petrs. night have hoped to have been eased in their rate yet
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they continued contentedly to pay the said Ninth part.
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But in the year 1729. The then Churchwardens and Overseers of the said parish raised yor.
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Petitioners proportion to between a fifth and Sixth part of the whole rate and Altho' there are other
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warehouses
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in the said parish particularly Devon's Mr.
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Hanbury's Plow yard
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, Screvous & Stert's
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they have not raised them or any other of the Inhabitants in proporcon to yor. Petrs. or even
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at all but laid almost the whole of the Additional rate on your Petrs. only
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That the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said parish for this present
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year 1731. have made an Assessment for the said year and To oppress yor Petrs. have rated them higher
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than even for the years 1729 and 1730.
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And for as much as your Petrs. are aggriev'd by the said rate and that the same as
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your Petrs. are advised is Illegal.
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Yor. Petrs. humbly pray that the said rate may be quashed or that
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Such order may be made therein as to this Honble. Court
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Shall seem meet.
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And your Petrs. shall ever pray
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