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<p n="395">To the Right Honourable <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n395-1">John Barber</rs>
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Esqr. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ156">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo223">City of London</rs>
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and to the Worshipfull the rest of<lb></lb>
his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ157">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo224">City of London</rs>
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and Liberties thereof at their Generall Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
of the Peace assembled</p>
<p n="396">The Humble Petition and Appeal of the Master & Wardens of the<lb></lb>
Company of Sadlers on behalf of themselves & the rest of the Members<lb></lb>
of the said Company</p>
<p n="397"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That Your Petitioners Hall or <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo225">Mansion House</rs>
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standeth in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo226">St. Vedast</rs>
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otherwise Foster in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo227">Foster Lane</rs>
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London that the Churchwardens<lb></lb>
and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish have rated and Assessed your<lb></lb>
Petitioners in respect of the Poors Rate for their said Hall the sum of fifteen<lb></lb>
Pounds and ten Shillings a Year as their Proportion towards the Relief of the<lb></lb>
Poor of the said Parish</p>
<p n="398">That Your Petitioners used to be rated but Eleven Pounds five<lb></lb>
Shillings and four Pence & sometimes only ten Pounds & eight Shillings for<lb></lb>
many years heretofore and that severall other of the Inhabitants of the said<lb></lb>
Parish are not rated and assessed in the like Proportion</p>
<p n="399">Your Petitioners therefore conceiving themselves<lb></lb>
aggrieved Humbly pray your Lordship and Worships<lb></lb>
that you will be pleased to relieve your Petitioners in<lb></lb>
the Premisses and order the Churchwardens and Overseers<lb></lb>
of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Vedast otherwise<lb></lb>
Foster and all other Persons concerned to attend this<lb></lb>
Court & produce their severall Books of Rates and<lb></lb>
Assessments and stand to and abide the Determination<lb></lb>
of this Court touching the Merritts of this Appeal</p>
<p n="400">And Your Petitioner will ever Pray Etc</p>
<p n="401"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n401-1">Robt: Lathwell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n401-2">Edwd Halsey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n401-3">John Holme</rs>
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