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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Right Honble the Lord Mayor & the Rest of the Justices of the
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Peace for the City of London at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for
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the same City Assembled
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The humble Petition of the President Treasurer &
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Governors of St. Bartholomews Hospital London
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Sheweth
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That the sd Hospital issutuate within the Parish of St.
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Bartholomew the Less, And the Government there of under
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the Lord Mayor & Court of Aldermen, belongs to your of
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Peters; and the sd Hospital nor your Peter in regard then
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were ever used to be rated to the Parish Rates.
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That by the Poors Rate of the sd Parish for three
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months from Mictras last Your Peter are charged by
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the Name of the Mayor Comonalty & cityens of the City of
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London Governors of the House of the Poor Commonly
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called St Bartholomews Hospital near West Smith field
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London of the Foundation of King Henry the Eighth
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for lands on which stood Tenements & houses by them
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pulled down & demolished, the Tenants of Which were
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used to be charged in the Poor Rate, & Qur £8:19:0
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That the said Houses were pulled down by your
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Peters for the Enlargement of the Hospital & for the
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more commondious Reception of a greater Number of
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Poor within the Hospital
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That your Peters apprehend themselves to be
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aggrieved thereby and are adoised & humbly Submitt
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to the Judgment of this Honouiable Court that they
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ought not at all to be Charged to the sd Rate in
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Respect of the said Lands.
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