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<p n="722">To the Worshipful His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50792_occ249">Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50792_geo966">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
General Quarter Session of the Peace for the<lb></lb>
said County Assembled</p>
<p n="723">The humble Petition and Appeal of<lb></lb>
The Reverend <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50792_n723-1">Francis Willis</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50792_occ250">Doctor of<lb></lb>
Physick</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50792_occ251">Rector</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50792_geo967">Saint<lb></lb>
John of Wapping</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50792_geo968">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="724"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth.</note>
<lb></lb>
That by a rate or Assessment made for the<lb></lb>
Relief of the Poor of the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50792_geo969">St. John Wapping</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on the 28th. day of September lastYour Petitioner was<lb></lb>
Assessed at the Sum of £5. per One Quarter of a Years<lb></lb>
Rate towards such Relief for and in respect of the<lb></lb>
Income of the Rectory of the said Parish</p>
<p n="725">That the Income of the said Rectory Consists<lb></lb>
principally in the Sum of £130a Year paid by<lb></lb>
Virtue and under the Direction of a certain Act of Parliament<lb></lb>
made in the<del>2d. Yeare of the Reign of his late Majesty</del>
fifth and sixth Years of the Reign of King<lb></lb>
<del>King George the second For working the Hamlet<obscured></obscured>
</del>
William and Queen Mary Intituted An Act for<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<del> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50792_geo970">Wapping & Stepney</rs>
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in the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50792_geo971">St. Dunston</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
</del>
a new Parish to be called the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50792_geo972">Saint John of<lb></lb>
<del> <obscured></obscured>
Stepneyin the County of Middlesex</del>
Wapping</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50792_geo973">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<del>a distinct Parish and for Providing a Maintenance<lb></lb>
for a Minister of the New Church there</del>
</p>
<p n="726">That your Petitioner or any of his Predecesson<lb></lb>
have never before been charged towards the Relief of the Poor of<lb></lb>
the said Parish for and in respect of the said Sum<lb></lb>
of £130.</p>
<p n="727">That your Petitioner apprehends he is not liable<lb></lb>
to be Assessed towards the said Relief in any Sum of</p>
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