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To the Right Worshipfull his Majesty's
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Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said County Assembled.
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The Petition and Appeal of
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That about ten Years ago, your Petitioner purchased
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a Freehold Messuage or Tenement called Grove House, in the
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, together with about Eighty Acres of Land
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thereunto belonging, and a small Messuage or Dwelling house
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thereunto also belonging of the yearly Value of about Forty pounds.
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That the said small Messuage or Dwelling house, and
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the Stables and Out buildings belonging to the Premises, so
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purchased by your Petitioner being in a very Ruinous State and
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Condition your Petitioner caused the same to be pulled down
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and rebuilt the Stables and Out Offices upon the old Foundations,
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but did not rebuild the said small House, nor any other Buildings
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on the Scite thereof.
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That the Mode of rating the Inhabitants of
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for the Relief of the Poor is at two Thirds of the
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yearly Value.
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That at the time your Petitioner purchased the two Houses
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and other Premises, and for many Years before, they had always
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been rated at Three hundred pounds a Year, but in the Year
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1778, (your Petitioner having then pulled down and removed
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the small House) his Rate was reduced to £266 a Year on
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account of the Diminution of the yearly Value and so continued
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to Michaelmas 1782, and (your Petitioner being than Abroad)
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his Rate was then raised to £466 a Year, which his Servant
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paid in his Masters Absence for the Year ending at Michaelmas
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1783, the Officers threatning to Distrain for the same, no Appeal
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