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Now Notwithstanding Your Petitioners former
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Rates Both to Church and Poor never Amounted to
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that Sume your Petitioner was ready to Comply
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with the said Order And hath paid two pounds
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Seven Shillings in part of the said Sume of four
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pounds which your Petitioner was soe Ordered to pay
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and at the same time Tendered the Remaining Sume of one pound
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Thirteen Shillings Which the then Church-Wardens and
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of the said Parish Refused to take
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and still Insist upon four Pounds over and above the
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said sume of Two Pounds Seven Shillings As alsoe
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persist in Rateing your Petitioner this year at
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Ninety Pounds a year And Still Continue the said
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Mr. Fuller at Sixty Eight Pounds a year Although
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in the Land Tax Books for these Severall years
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your Petitioner hath been Rated at Sixty Pounds
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a year and noe more and the said Mr. Fuller at
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Sixty Eight Pounds a Year
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Wherefore your Petitioner
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thinking himselfe Aggrieved Doth Humbly
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Appeale from the said Rate and Assessment
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made by the Church-Wardens and Overseers
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of the poor of the Said Parish of Saint
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Katherine Coleman for this present year
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To your Lordshipp and Worshipps Susannah
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as the same is an Unequall Rate as before
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Set forth And humbly prays he may be
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heard in the Premisses And That the
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Church-Wardens and Overseers of the poor
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of the
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Parish of St. Catherine
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Coleman London
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may Appear before your Lordshipp and
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Worshipps to Hear your Judgement and
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Determination touching this Appeale
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And to Abide by the Order of this Court therein
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And your Petitioner Shall Ever pray
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