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To the Rt: Worsepll: his Matye Justices of the Peace for the County of
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The humble peticon and Appeal of
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Richard
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Mills
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William Frances
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John Smith
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of
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the Parish of
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St. James Clerkenwell
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in the
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said County
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Sheweth
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That at Easter Last your Petitioner wereby severall of the Inhabitant of
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the said parish Elected & chosen to serve the Office of Scavenger for the
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Upper Liberty of St. James Clerkenwell
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for the year Ensuing
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That in pursuance thereof your Petitrs executed the said Office &
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soon after gave Bond to the Rocker for the payment of Seaventeen
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pounds Tenn Shillings Quarterly for Cleansing the Streetes in the sd
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Liberty
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That there hath beene severall meetings of the Inhabitant of the sd
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Parish at the Vestry in order to make a rate or Assessment upon the
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Inhabitant thereof for Reimbursing your Petitr: the Moneys by them
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Disbursed on the aforesaid Attempt But by reason of several
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controverseys arising betweene the Inhabitants Your Petitrs: cannot
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obteine Such Rate or Assessment
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That the Scavengers rate in the other Liberty of the sd Parish after ye
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rate of four pence p pound (whereas your Petitrs amounts to Six
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pence in the pound)when collected amounts to near Thirty pounds
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more then will Sattisty the Raker But they Refuse to Collect the Same
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in Order to Reimburse your Petitrs Whereby severall substantiall
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Inhabitants are not charged to the Scavengers rate And for a Sumch
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as there was one Quarter payment due to the Raker at Mid Summer
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last which Your Petitrs: by vertue of the aforesaid Bond are obliedged
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to pay Humbly Conceive themselves very much aggrieved
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Your Petitr therefore humbly pray such
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Relief in the Premises as to this Court
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shall be thought most Meete
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And Yor Petitrs Shall Ever pray etc
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Richd: Miles
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Wm France
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John Smith
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