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Johe Webster
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other persons Inhabitants of the parish of
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St. Mary Matfellon als
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Whitechapple
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in this County on behalfe of themselves and other
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Inhabitants of the said parish exhibited their humble peticon &
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appeale unto the Court of the last General Quarter Sessions of the
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peace begun and holden for this County on
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Monday the twenty
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ninth day of June last
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and assessed towards the releif of the poor of the said parish of
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St.
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Mary White Chappel
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for this present year one thousand Seven
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hundred & thirty the several sumes of money under the said
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peticon and appeale at each particular name respectively set
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downe by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said
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parish and some other Inhabitants, and the same is called a
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discretionary Rate, And that the peticoners thought themselves
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aggreived by such a discretionary Rate, and hoped to prove to the said
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Court the same to be rather a partial & unequall Rate, For in fact
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their discretion is to ease such who are their Freinds & Favourites
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pounds p Ann, and carry on small busyness to support their
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Familys, yet are rated one silling & six pence and same two
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shillings P Month others who pay Sixteen or eighteen pound
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P Ann are rated two shillings and Six pence and three shillings
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P Month, which is as much as several others are rated wh
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pay double the rent and deale for double the money in way of
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trade, and particularly one of the present Churchwardens whose
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house is thirty five pounds P Ann was rated last year but two
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Shillings and four pence P month and tis presumed is rated no
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more this Yeare, and that several other Inhabitants who rent
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houses of upwards of ten pounds P Ann are not rated at all
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though their rent makes each of them an Inhabitant, And that
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several persons in the said parish who have places in the several
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publick offices as the Custome houses Navy Office Victualling Officer
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