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To the Worshipfull
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and to
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the rest of his Majesty's
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in their General Session Assembled.
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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Diedrick
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of the Parish of
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Saint George Middlesex
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an
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Sheweth.
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That a Rate or Assessment was
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on the nineteenth day of August last made for the relief of the Poor of
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the said Parish by
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John Horsford
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William Ray
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William Gunniss
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John Hopkins
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Poor of the said Parish and all owed by Roberts Pill and
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Christopher Scott
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Esquires two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the said County, which
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Rate was made for three Months Commenceing at Lady Day now last past. That your
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Petitioner conceives himself aggrieved by the said Rate because heard
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the other Inhabitants of the said Parish are thereby Rated or Assessed
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by an Annual Assessment by the Pound, Whereas the Custom and Usage
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of the said Parish hath constantly for great numbers of Years last
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past been to make a Monthly Rate or Assessment, which being
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discretionary was much better Calculated to Answer immediate
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Occasions without bringing a perpetual burthen on the Inhabitants.
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That the said Rate is in many Instances partial and
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unequal and in particular that your said Petitioner is charged much
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higher in proportion to the Annual Value of the Premises Occupied
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by him than other Persons within the said Parish and therefore and
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for other Defects in the said Rate your Petitioner Appeals therefrom
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that your
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Worships would be pleased to order the benefit of the
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said Appeal to be saved to your Petitioner, and that your
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Worships would be pleased to appoint a Day in the next
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General Quarter Session of the Peace to hear and determine
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=wardens and Overseers of the said Parish may produce
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the Books of the Old Rates for the Relief of the Poor of
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the said Parish, as also the Books of the present Rate
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