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<p n="1004">To his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50842_occ305">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50842_geo711">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_geo711" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in the General Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions of the Peace assembled</p>
<p n="1005">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1005-1">Henry<lb></lb>
Holland</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1005-1" type="given" value="Henry"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1005-1" type="surname" value="Holland"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1005-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1005-2">Richard Westmacot</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1005-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1005-3">John Linnell</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1005-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1005-4">William Clerke</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1005-5">Charles Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Inhabitants of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50842_geo712"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50842_geo713">parish of St. George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50842_geo714">County of Middlesex</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1006"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioners have been for several Years last past<lb></lb>
and during the Years 1786 and 1787 they were Inhabitants of the<lb></lb>
said Parish and as such liable and paid the Rates and Assessments<lb></lb>
made for the relief of the poor of the said Parish</p>
<p n="1007">That in the Year 1786 The Right Honorable Lord Boston and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1007-10">Jervase Clerke Jervase</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1007-10" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50842_occ306">Esqr</rs>
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. Two of the Inhabitants of the said Parish<lb></lb>
were the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50842_occ307">Church wardens</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1007-1">Robert Faulder</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1007-1" type="surname" value="Faulder"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1007-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1007-2">Samuel Hudson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1007-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1007-3">Merry Wilson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1007-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50842_n1007-4">Alexander Yeate</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_n1007-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Four other Inhabitants of the<lb></lb>
said Parish were <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50842_occ308">Overseers of the Poor</rs>
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of the same <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50842_geo715">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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aforesaid.</p>
<p n="1008">That an Account of the Sums assessed collected and received within each<lb></lb>
Ward of the said Parish and all Monies paid and disbursed for the<lb></lb>
relief of the poor of the said Parish in the year 1786 hath been Entered<lb></lb>
examined adjusted and allowed at a meeting of the Vestry of the said Parish<lb></lb>
pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament passed in the 26th.<lb></lb>
year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the 2nd Intitled "an act<lb></lb>
for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50842_geo716">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50842_geo717">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50842_geo718">Liberty and City of Westminster</rs>
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and for cleansing<lb></lb>
the Streets and repairing the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50842_occ309">High Ways</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50842_occ309" type="occupation" value="High Ways"></interp>
within the said Parish". That in<lb></lb>
such Account there are divers Sums of Money charged as Payments and<lb></lb>
Disbursements for the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish unto Sundry<lb></lb>
Persons therein named and for divers purposes therein mentioned which<lb></lb>
as your Petitioners conceive ought not to have been charged therein the<lb></lb>
same not having been disbursed or paid for the Relief of the Poor of the<lb></lb>
said Parish.</p>
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