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To the Right Honourable
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John Barber
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Lord Mayor
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and to the rest of His Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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for the said City and
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Liberties thereof in their Generall Quarter Sessions assembled.
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The humble Petition and Appeale of
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Robert Leake
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Sheweth,
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That Your Petitioner was Severall Years Since appointed by the Worshipfull the
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Governours
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Christ Hospitall
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, Keeper of
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Blackwell Hall
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London, which said Hall now
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is, and for many Years, hath been a publick Markett, in which all Woollen Clothes brought
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to London, are to be sold, and the Profitts arising thereby, were by this Honourable City
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heretofore granted to the Governours of the said Hospitall, for and towards the Releife of
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the poor Children harboured and to be harboured in the said Hospitall, they paying a
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Yearly Sume of Two hundred and thirty three Pounds and upward to the Poor of St.
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Bartholomew's Hospitall in West Smithfeild, which said Profitts have been by them
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constantly applyed to the said Charities.
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That your Petitioner as Servant to the Governours of the said Hospitall hath
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an Appartment in the said Hall allotted to him by the said Governours for his Habitation, for
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which he pays no Rents nor is the said Hall assessed or rated to the Land Tax, or hath the same,
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as yor. Petitioner hath heard and beleives, ever been rated or assessed to the Poor, since the
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Appropriation of the same to the said Charities, which is near a hundred and fifty years
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Since.
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That by an Assessment made on the Inhabitants of the Parish of Saint
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Michael Bassieshaw
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in the
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for and toward the Reliefe of the Poor of the
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said Parish, both for that Past of Blackwell Hall in which your Petitioner dwells, and also
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for all thereof of the said Hall which stands in the said Parish, your Petitioner is rated and
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assessed at the Sume of Two Pounds Seven Shillings and three pence for one whole Month
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from the Twenty Eighth Day of February One thousand Seven hundred and thirty two, to the
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Twenty Eighth Day of March One thousand Seven hundred and thirty three, for noe
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payment whereof, a Distress hath been made on your Petitioners Goods.
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That your Petitioner conceiving himself agrieved by the Assessment and
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Proceedings aforesaid humbly appeales therefrom, and prays such order
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may be made therein as to this Court Shall Seem meet.
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And your Petitioner Shall ever pray
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Robt. Leake
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