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<p n="80">To the Worshipful his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50786_occ8">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50786_geo23">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Session of the peace assembled</p>
<p n="81">The Humble Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50786_n81-1">Lydia Bulkley</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50786_geo24">Uxbridge</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50786_geo25">County of Middlesex</rs>
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against such<lb></lb>
part of the Rate made the 14th. day of July 1784 for the<lb></lb>
Relief of the poor of the said Town as respects the<lb></lb>
Messuage or Tenement and premises in which your<lb></lb>
Petitioner now resides and Dwells.</p>
<p n="82"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That Mr. Higginson a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50786_occ9">Merchant</rs>
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in London some time<lb></lb>
since purchased of the Representation of Mr. Aldridge several<lb></lb>
Houses in the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50786_geo26">Uxbridge</rs>
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And after repairing the<lb></lb>
same let one of such Houses to your Petitioner in which She<lb></lb>
now lives at £30 P Ann</p>
<p n="83">That the Chapel Wardens and Overseers of the poor of<lb></lb>
the said Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50786_geo27">Uxbridge</rs>
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have lately made a Rate for the<lb></lb>
Relief of the poor thereof and have rated and assessed your<lb></lb>
Petitioner to such Rate at the Rate and in proportion to the<lb></lb>
Rent of £50 pr. Ann for her said premises.</p>
<p n="84">That as your petitioner pays a real and bonafide Rent of £30<lb></lb>
pr Ann only she conceives She ought not to be rated to the Poors<lb></lb>
Rate for more than what she pays or in proportion thereto according<lb></lb>
to the usual mode of rating & Assessing the other Inhabitants of the<lb></lb>
said Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50786_geo28">Uxbridge</rs>
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<p n="85">Your Petitioner being aggreived by such Rate or Assessment<lb></lb>
humbly appeals to this Court against the same or such part<lb></lb>
thereof as relates to the premes occupied by your Petitioner<lb></lb>
and humbly prays your Worships will be pleased to appoint<lb></lb>
a Day in this present Session for hearing & Determining of<lb></lb>
her said Appeal & for granting your Petr. such Relief in the<lb></lb>
premises as to your worships shall seem meet And that the<lb></lb>
Chapel wardens and Overseers of the poor of the said Town<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50786_geo29">Uxbridge</rs>
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and all parties concerned on Notice hereof<lb></lb>
be then and there order'd to attend.</p>
<p n="86"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50786_n86-1">Chrisr. Hill</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50786_occ10">Sollr</rs>
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. for Appellt.</p>
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