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of hawest and the summoning the assessors and Collectors from
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the distant parts of the County might be inconvenient to them upon
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that account Your Committee confined themselves to Holborn and
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Finsbury Divisions and the Liberty of Westminster, where by reason of
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the great number of houses and consequently the inconsiderableness
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of the assessment upon each house the aforementioned oppression was
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carried on in a manner least likely to be discovered, and the rather
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because upon view of the duplicates it did not appear to them to prevail
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so munch in the County parishes. The assessors generally alledged for
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excuse that what they had done was to satiffy the charges of Collection
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the makeing of the Books and such like and that many persons refused
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to pay their assessment by reason whereof little more could be raised
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than sufficient to satisfy the Treasurer the legall Sum, tho' upon view
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of the Books it appears to your Committee that in most of the parishes
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the assessment has been almost punctually raised. The assessors of St.
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Anns Westm did acknowledge their fault and consess that they did it
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knowingly to give an opportunity to the Collector to raisea Sum of
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money for the support of himself and a numerous Family which
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must otherwise have been burthen Some to their parish and to the end
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of their assessment have deceitfully added the words, Sum Total
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£11:19s:5d: Tho' they mention in the title that £7 only was charged upon
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their parish But upon casting up the Book by some of your
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Committee it appears to your Committee to amount to £17 and
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upwards, It appears that all the Collectors who are for the most
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part the Beadles either in their ownright or as Deputys did this
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with their Eyes open, in regard none of them have paid more to the
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Treasucer'suse than the sum charged upon their parish by the legall
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rate, and they acknowledged that the money by them raised over and
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above what they had paid to the use of the Treasurer was still in their
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hands. Your Committee had it in their intention to have caused all
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the Originall Collecting Books to have been cast up to see what has been
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actually collected and consequently what remains in the Collectors
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hands, but that has not been yet done for want of an opportunity of
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seeing those Books which they consest they had destroyed. In the
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course of this enquiry it appeared that several parishes to prevent
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any appression upon them had ordered the just sum and no more to be
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paid out of the Land tax But this precaution appears also to have been
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abused for upon view of the receipts in some of those parishes Your
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Committee entertained a suspicion that they had paid their
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