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<p n="405">To the Right Honble: <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n405-1">John Barber</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ158">Esqr</rs>
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: <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ159">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the City<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo228">London</rs>
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And to the rest of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace<lb></lb>
for the said City in their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace assembled</p>
<p n="406">The Humble Petition & Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n406-1">William Martin</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ160">Clk</rs>
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of the Compy<lb></lb>
of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ161">Blacksmiths</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo229">London</rs>
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on the behalf of himself & the said Compy.</p>
<p n="407"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That the Compy of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ162">Blacksmiths</rs>
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are an Antient Compy of this Honble<lb></lb>
City And have for many Years last past been Yearly Rated or assessed to the Poor<lb></lb>
for & in respect of their Hall or <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo230">Mansion House</rs>
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Situate on Lambeth Hill in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo231">Parish of St: Mary Magdalen</rs>
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Old Fish Street Lodon in the Sume of Forty<lb></lb>
Shillings & no more being One Shilling in the pound on Forty pound P Ann as<lb></lb>
the said Hall hath always been & now is Charged to the Kings Tax.</p>
<p n="408">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n408-1">Wm: Martin</rs>
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being rated or assessed for & in respect of the sd:<lb></lb>
Companys Hall at the rate of Four pounds for the Year 1731 Did then Appeal<lb></lb>
to this Honble: Court against the said Poors Rate as being Excessive & Double to<lb></lb>
what the said Hall had been Rated for many Years then last past & for that the<lb></lb>
other Inhabitants in the sd: Parish were not raised Rated & Assessed in Reportion thereto</p>
<p n="409">That the said Appeal comeing on to be finally heard & Determined the 17th: day<lb></lb>
of October last It did then Appear by the several Books of Assessment for several Years<lb></lb>
last past that the said Rate was Excessive & Double to what they had been usually<lb></lb>
Rated or assessed whereupon & upon hearing what the Church Wardens their Councell<lb></lb>
& Witnesses could alledge in the Remes It was Ordered by the Court that the said Rate or<lb></lb>
Assessment for the Year 1781 should be reduced to the Sume of Forty Shillings<lb></lb>
according to the former Rates & Asessments for the said Hall</p>
<p n="410">That your Petr: having paid the Sume of Forty Shillings for the Poors Rate<lb></lb>
for the Year 1731 hath in pursuance of the said Order paid the Sume of Forty Shillings in full<lb></lb>
for the Year 1732 which the Church: Wardens accepted accordingly.</p>
<p n="411">That notwithstanding the said Order the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo232">Saint Mary Magdalen</rs>
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Old<lb></lb>
Fish Street have Charged or Assessed the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n411-2">Wm: Martin</rs>
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for this prsent Year 1733 for & in<lb></lb>
respect of the said Companys Hall One Shilling in the Pound on the Yearly Rent of Eighty<lb></lb>
four pounds although the Hall is Charged to the Kings Tax at Forty pounds P Ann & no<lb></lb>
more as was made appear on the Hearing of the last Appeal which rate is more then Double<lb></lb>
what the Hall hath been usually Rated at & Even more than the said Hall was Charged<lb></lb>
in the Year 1781 when the same was reduced to the Sume of Forty Shillings as aforesaid<lb></lb>
And the Inhabitants of the said Parish in General are not raised rated or assessed in<lb></lb>
Proportion thereto, and for that the said Rate is in direct Contempt of the said Order of<lb></lb>
Sessions so lately made as October last & purely to put your Petr. to Charge.</p>
<p n="412">Your Petr: therefore humbly prays that the said Rate for the<lb></lb>
Year 1733 may be reduced to the Sume of Forty Shillings And the<lb></lb>
remainder of the sd: Rate may be Quashed and the said Parish<lb></lb>
may be prevented from Oppressing your Petr: in so Vexations<lb></lb>
a manner for the time to come And may pay the Costs of this<lb></lb>
Appeal And that your Petrs: may have such releife in the prmes<lb></lb>
as to your Lordship shall seem meet.</p>
<p n="413">And your Petr: as in Duty bound shall ever pray Etc:</p>
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