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To the Right Honourable
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John Barber
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and to the Worshipfull the rest of
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his Majesties
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and Liberties thereof at their Generall Quarter Sessions
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of the Peace assembled
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of the Master & Wardens of the
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Sheweth
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That Your Petitioners Hall or
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standeth in the Parish of
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otherwise Foster in
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London that the Churchwardens
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and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish have rated and Assessed your
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Petitioners in respect of the Poors Rate for their said Hall the sum of fifteen
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Pounds and ten Shillings a Year as their Proportion towards the Relief of the
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Poor of the said Parish
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That Your Petitioners used to be rated but Eleven Pounds five
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Shillings and four Pence & sometimes only ten Pounds & eight Shillings for
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many years heretofore and that severall other of the Inhabitants of the said
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Your Petitioners therefore conceiving themselves
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aggrieved Humbly pray your Lordship and Worships
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that you will be pleased to relieve your Petitioners in
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the Premisses and order the Churchwardens and Overseers
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of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Vedast otherwise
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Foster and all other Persons concerned to attend this
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Court & produce their severall Books of Rates and
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Assessments and stand to and abide the Determination
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And Your Petitioner will ever Pray Etc
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