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To the Right Honourable Sir
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Edwd. Bellamy
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for the said City in their General Quarter Sessions of the peace Assembled.
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The Humble petition and Appeal of
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Sheweth
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parish of Christ Church
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of one House within the said parish the rent and Taxes of which are paid by your petitioner who for the
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year 1732 hath been rated by the Church Wardens and Overseers of the said parish in much larger
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sums of money than he ought to have been towards the Releif of the poor of the said Parish which
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said rate or Assessment your Petitioner Humbly Conceives is very unequall Arbitary and Illegal in
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many respects and Pticularly for that diverse Inhabitants and Occupyers of Houses within the said
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parish some of which pay as Large and others much Larger rent than your Petitioner and whose trade
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and Circumstances do Exceed or at least Equal your Petitioners have for that year been rated in much less
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sums of money than your Petitioner and also for that the said rate or Assessment is not made Equall According
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to the rents of the
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Houses and Circumstances of the Inhabitants within the said Parish but at the discretion
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of the Church Wardens and Overseers of the said parish
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of the said Parish for and towards the necessary releife of the poor
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of the said parish Humbly prays that the said rate may be quashed And
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that your Petitioner may be releived in the premisses in such manner
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as to this Court shall Seem Just and Fitting
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And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.
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The Appel. Occupies one House in
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rents yet pays less to the poor than the Appel. as by foll Pticulars appears Vizt.
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John Bosworth
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Wm. Bowen
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Saml. Woolastone
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Francis Clark
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John Finch
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Philip Harris
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John Godfrey
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Henry Bradley
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Robt. Rustall
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John Blake
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and to the poor0:0:8
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lb
>
</
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rs
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Francis Humphries
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</
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rent P an 40:0:0
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
and to the poor weekly0:1:0
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
<
rs
type
=
"persName"
id
=
"LMSLPS15046_n69-7"
>
Henry Plowman
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rs
>
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interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n69-7"
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value
=
"Henry"
>
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>
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interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n69-7"
type
=
"surname"
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=
"Plowman"
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interp
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<
interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n69-7"
type
=
"gender"
value
=
"male"
>
</
interp
>
rents100:0:0
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
and to the poor0:1:0
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
<
rs
type
=
"persName"
id
=
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>
John Figes
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>
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value
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"John"
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inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n69-10"
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interp
inst
=
"LMSLPS15046_n69-10"
type
=
"gender"
value
=
"male"
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</
interp
>
rents30:0:0
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
and to the poor0:0:8
</
p
>
<
p
n
=
"70"
>
By these Pticulars the Inequallity of the rate date Appear
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
we have given the Church Wardens a Copy of those particulars
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p
>
</
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