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