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To the Rt. Worpll. her Maties,
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Justices of the Peace
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for the County of Middx a
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Sessions.
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The Humble Peticon of
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William Artorbury
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Sheweth
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That Your Peticonr. being a
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at three pounds P Ann in a
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called
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Rotten Row
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within the parish of
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in this County is Assessed
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towards the reliefe of the poore there for this present Yeare the Sume of Nineteen
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Shillings & Six pence (by which he thinks himselfe Aggrieved)
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That Your & Peticonr has a
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wife
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who by breaking her
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Legg has been ill
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and has alsoe had fifteen Children by her (Six whereof are now at his Charge)
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That Your Peticonr: being above poore Maun was never Assessed untill the last Year
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and upon his Appeale the was relieved by this Court
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in the
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one Inhabitant Since has been Assessed besides Your Peticonr in the place where
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at the Severall houses there are let at double the Rent Your Peticonr pass, He Humbly
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to Your Worships for reliefe)
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Your Peticonr. therefore most humbly prays an Ordrs. from this Co
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for ye Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poore of ye sd parish of
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to Attend Your Worships and shew cause why Your Peticonr. Should not be dis
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of the said Rate or other wife relieved in the prmisses as to Your Worships
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Seem meet
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Rd. Watkins
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And Your Peticonr shall ever pray Etc.
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The Mark
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